It all depends on the dose : : poisons and medicines in european history / / edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham and Jon Arrizabalaga.

• Superior document: The history of medicine in context
• TeilnehmendeR: Arrizabalaga, Jon,; Cunningham, Andrew,; Grell, Ole Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Boca Raton, FL : : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: History of medicine in context.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 pages).

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can...

Table of Contents

• chapter Introduction: Deadly medicine ANDREW CUNNINGHAM
• chapter 1 Poisons in the historic medicine cabinet TOINE PIETERS
• chapter 2 “First Behead Your Viper”: Acquiring knowledge in Galen’s poison stories / HELEN KING
• chapter 3 Mining for poison in a devout heart: Dissective practices and poisoning in late medieval Europe MONTSERRAT CABRÉ AND FERNANDO SALMÓN
• chapter 4 Pestis Manufacta: Plague, poisons and fear in mid-fourteenth-century Europe / JON ARRIZABALAGA
• chapter 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination: Paracelsus’s theories of poison GEORGIANA D. HEDESAN
• chapter 6 Martin Luther on the poison of sexual abstinence and the poison of the pox: From Galen to Paracelsus OLE PETER GRELL
• chapter 7 Poisoning as politics: The Italian Renaissance courts ALESSANDRO PASTORE
• chapter 8 Gender, poison, and antidotes in early modern Europe ALISH ARANKIN
• chapter 9 Mateu Orfila (1787–1853) and nineteenth-century toxicology JOSÉ RAMÓN BERTOMEU-SÁNCHEZ
• chapter 10 Mercury: “One of the Most Valuable Drugs We Have” (1937) ANDREW CUNNINGHAM
• chapter 11 Collateral benefits: Ergot, botulism, Salmonella and their therapeutic applications since 1800 ANNE HARDY
• chapter 12 It does all depend on the dose. Understanding beneficial and adverse drug effects since 1864: Clinical and experimental attitudes to the Law of Mass Action and concentration– effect curves JEFFREY K. ARONSON AND ROBIN E. FERNER.