• Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593)

    Author(s):
    Elisabeth Moreau (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    Medical Humanities, Renaissance / Early Modern Studies, Renaissance Science and Medicine, Science Studies and the History of Science
    Subject(s):
    History, Natural history, Physics, Philosophy, Ancient
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/zrhd-qy52
    Abstract:
    From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and their modes of preparation. In the late Renaissance, Galenic physicians and naturalists, such as Leonhart Fuchs and Pietro Andrea Mattioli, attempted to explain these pharmacological properties or “faculties” at the intersection of medicine, botany, and natural philosophy. This chapter examines the case of the Italian physician and botanist Andrea Cesalpino. His pharmacological treatise De medicamentorum facultatibus [On the Faculties of Drugs, 1593] was particularly significant for its reception of ancient and medieval texts on drug properties, materia medica, and the role of the senses in the knowledge of bodies.
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.5040/9781350325173
    Publisher:
    Bloomsbury
    Pub. Date:
    2023
    Book Title:
    Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century
    Author/Editor:
    Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin
    Chapter:
    12
    Page Range:
    209 - 223
    ISBN:
    9781350325159
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 months ago
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    All Rights Reserved
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