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This article examines the role of testing and innovation in sixteenthcentury Italian pharmacy. I argue that apothecaries were less concerned with testing drugs for efficacy or creating novel products than with reactivating an older Mediterranean pharmacological tradition and studying the materials on which it relied. Their practice was not driven by radical experimentation but by a "culture of ...

Historians of indigenous medicine in colonial India have looked more closely at the changes, reinventions and reformulations of institutions of Ayurveda and Unani than at the cognitive content of the drugs themselves. The few historians who have examined the changing content of indigenous medicines have conceptualised the creation of materia medica of Indian drugs through two tropes: one of cir...

The Ayurvedic materia medica is based upto 500 to 600 plant drugs. The number of these drugs are dwindling rapidly due to several natural and man made factors with the result the physicians are uanble to get the required drug or the required quantity of the drug. This ultimately results in the gradual death of the entire system. In order to overcome this alarming problem and to provide a perman...

This article describes the patterns and meaning I perceived in the remedy by weaving together the threads of the symptoms of the proving with the insights that prompted me to make sense of it, existing materia medica, and similar understandings I subsequently discovered elsewhere. It’s an interpretation of the remedy, as well as an account of some of the actual symptoms it produced. It uses Jun...

own lips his opinions of " men and things," could not have been otherwise than struck with his sagacity on all matters to the consideration of which he had directed his able mind. It is Avell known that the subject of insanity was one of Sir H. Halford's favourite topics of study. We well recollect a long and deeply interesting conversation which we had with him, on the various points connected...

J.C. Hammer, 2 J.C. Cuevas, 2, 4 F.S. Bergeret, and W. Belzig Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Departamento de F́ısica Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie, D-7...

plants are one of the great resources of the world, and as humankind has evolved, socially, spiritually, and economically, we have found, collectively, a myriad uses for the plants around us. one of those uses is for the prevention, treatment, and cure of various disease states. documented knowledge about such use dates back at least 4000 years, and several of the plant mentioned in the ancient...