• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
It All Depends on the Dose: Poisons and Medicines in European History

It All Depends on the Dose: Poisons and Medicines in European History

Paperback

Series: History of Medicine in Context

Medical ReferenceGeneral European History

ISBN10: 1032401915
ISBN13: 9781032401911
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 29 2022
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines.

Also in

Medical Reference