It All Depends on the Dose : Poisons and Medicines in European History

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can...

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Other Authors: Grell, Ole Peter (Editor), Cunningham, Andrew (Editor), Arrizabalaga, Jon (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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