Bezoar Use in Early Modern Transylvania

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Gruia, A. -M. (2016). Bezoar Use in Early Modern Transylvania, (35), 18-28. Retrieved from https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=554591

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Title: Bezoar Use in Early Modern Transylvania
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Author: Ana-Maria, Gruia
Journal: Acta historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharmaciae, medicinae veterinariae
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Issue: 35
Start page: 18
End page: 28
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URL: https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=554591
Date: 2016-2021/10/20/08:19:47
Abstract: Summary/Abstract: The present paper examines, for the fi rst time, the use of bezoars in Transylvania during the 17thand 18thcenturies. Th e author employs both written sources (correspondence, pharmacy inventories, apothecary tariff s, and memoirs) and historical artifacts in order to reconstruct the place of bezoars in the era’s Materia Medica, by comparison with Western Europe.
Keywords: alexipharmics, antidotes, bezoars, Early Modern History of Medicine, Materia Medica, Transylvania