Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Introduction

[Jennifer M. Rampling and Peter M. Jones]

Part I: Transmission

1. Medicine in Graeco-Egyptian Alchemical Collections

[Matteo Martelli]

2. Jabirian Alchemy and Medicine

[Sebastien Moureau]

3. The Concept of Elixir in Western Medieval Alchemy

[Michela Pereira]

4. Alchemy and Medicine in the Ottoman Court

[Tuna Artun]

Part II: Theories of Alchemical Healing

5. Radical Moisture in Late Medieval Alchemy

[Chiara Crisciani]

6. The Idea of the Physician in Medieval and Early Modern Alchemy

[Jennifer M. Rampling]

7. Paracelsus

[Didier Kahn translated by Jennifer M. Rampling]

8. From Interpretation to Integration: J. B. Van Helmont and his Medico-Alchemical Hippocratism

[Georgiana D. Hedesan]

Part III: Alchemy and Medical Practice

9. Alchemical Remedies in Late Medieval England

[Peter M. Jones]

10. The Simple Alchemy of Renaissance Apothecaries

[Valentina Pugliano]

11. Medical Performance and the Alchemy of Plants in the Ventures of Leonard Thurnheisser

[Bruce T. Moran]

12. Chymistry for Ladies? Women and Medical Distillation in Early Modern Europe

[Alisha Rankin]

Part IV: The Status of Chemical Medicine

13. Reconciling Galenic and Chemical Medicine

[Hiro Hirai]

14. Chemical Medicine in Early Journals

[Margaret D. Garber]

15. Extracting the Exotic: Global Chymical Medicine in the Seventeenth Century

[Hjalmar Fors]

16. The Chymist and the Physician: Rivalry and Conflict at the Academie Royale des Sciences

[Lawrence M. Principe]

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