Drugs on trial : : experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century / / Andreas-Holger Maehle.
Experimental pharmacology is often portrayed as a creation of the nineteenth century, the age of the sciences in medicine. This book demonstrates that the basic methodology of the field, including chemical analysis, in vitro testing, animal experimentation and human research, was already developed i...
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| Superior document: | Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio Medica
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- General Introduction: Features of Eighteenth-Century Pharmacology
- Dissolving the Stone: The Search for Lithontriptics
- Opium: Explorations of an Ambiguous Drug
- Peruvian Bark: From Specific Febrifuge to Universal Remedy
- General Conclusions: Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation
- Bibliography.