Roger Bacon and the incorruptible human, 1220-1292 : alchemy, pharmacology and the desire to prolong life / Meagan S. Allen.

This book examines Roger Bacons alchemical theories, and explains how he believed that the key to extending life lay not in the curricula as taught in the medical faculties of the universities, but in the study of alchemy. Though twelfth- and thirteenth-century alchemy was generally concerned with t...

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