It All Depends on the Dose - 9781032401911

Taylor & Francis

Introduction: Deadly Medicine Andrew Cunningham 1. Poisons in the Historic Medicine Cabinet Toine Pieters 2. \""First Behead Your Viper\"": Acquiring Knowledge in Galen's Poison Stories Helen King 3. Mining for Poison in a Devout Heart: Dissective Practices and Poisoning in Late Medieval Europe Montserrat Cabr\u00E9 and Fernando Salm\u00F3n 4. Pestis Manufacta: Plague, Poisons, and Fear in Mid Fourteenth-Century Europe Jon Arrizabalaga 5. Alchemy, Potency, Imagination: Paracelsus's Theories of Poison Georgiana D. Hedesan 6. Martin Luther on the Poison of Sexual Abstinence and the Poison of the Pox: From Galen to Paracelsus Ole Peter Grell 7. Poisoning as Politics: The Italian Renaissance Courts Alessandro Pastore 8. Gender, Poison, and Antidotes in Early Modern Europe Alisha Rankin 9. Mateu Orfila (1787-1853) and Nineteenth-Century Toxicology Jos\u00E9 Ram\u00F3n Bertomeu-S\u00E1nchez 10. Mercury: \""One of the Most Valuable Drugs We Have\"" (1937) Andrew Cunningham 11. Collateral Benefir