Bezoar Use in Early Modern Transylvania
Bezoar Use in Early Modern Transylvania
Author(s): Ana-Maria GruiaSubject(s): Cultural history, Health and medicine and law, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Naučno društvo za istoriju zdravstvene kulture
Keywords: bezoars; antidotes; Early Modern History of Medicine; Materia Medica; alexipharmics;Transylvania;
Summary/Abstract: The present paper examines, for the fi rst time, the use of bezoars in Transylvania during the 17thand 18thcenturies. Th e author employs both written sources (correspondence, pharmacy inventories, apothecary tariff s, and memoirs) and historical artifacts in order to reconstruct the place of bezoars in the era’s Materia Medica, by comparison with Western Europe.
Journal: Acta historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharmaciae, medicinae veterinariae
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 35
- Page Range: 18-28
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English