Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Paperback

by Frederick W. Gibbs (Author)

This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 1200-1600) physicians discussed the relationship between poison, medicine, and disease. Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical texts-with an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, p

Author Biography

Frederick W. Gibbs is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico, USA.