The world of plants in Renaissance Tuscany : medicine and botany /

The world of plants in Renaissance Tuscany : medicine and botany / Cristina Bellorini.

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Bellorini, Cristina (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2016.
Series:History of medicine in context.
Subjects:
Medicinal plants > Italy > Tuscany > History > 16th century.
Materia medica, Vegetable > Italy > Tuscany > History.
Botany, Medical > Italy > Tuscany > History.
Botany, Medical.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Medicinal plants.
Italy > Tuscany.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Plants and Medicine at the Court of Cosimo, Francesco, and Ferdinando de' Medici
  • 2 Medical Botany at the Re-founded University of Pisa
  • 3 New Ways of Studying Plants
  • 4 Plants from the New World
  • 5 The Nuovo ricettario fiorentino and the Understanding of Therapy
  • 6 Theory and Practice
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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