Chapter Jan Baptist Van Helmont and the Medical-Alchemical Perspectives of Poison
This chapter discusses Jan Baptist Van Helmont's (1579-1644) views on poison in light of his medical alchemy. First, it argues that his approach was fundamentally influenced by the theories of 'universal poison' and 'potent poison' developed by Theophrastus von Hohenheim, ca...
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Elsevier/Academic Press
2017
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