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Toxicology in Antiquity is the 1st in a chain of brief layout works masking key accomplishments, scientists, and occasions within the extensive box of toxicology, together with environmental health and wellbeing and chemical safeguard. this primary quantity units the tone for the sequence and begins on the very starting, traditionally conversing, with a glance at toxicology in precedent days. The ebook explains that ahead of clinical learn tools have been built, toxicology thrived as a really useful self-discipline. humans residing in historical civilizations comfortably discovered to tell apart secure components from detrimental ones, easy methods to stay away from those dangerous components, and the way to exploit them to inflict damage on enemies. It additionally describes students who compiled compendia of poisonous agents.
- Provides the historic heritage for figuring out sleek toxicology
- Illustrates the methods historic civilizations discovered to tell apart secure from detrimental ingredients, how one can keep away from the unsafe components and the way to take advantage of them opposed to enemies
- Details students who compiled compendia of poisonous agents
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The meaning of the word Alexipharmaka is still unclear. It is manifestly composed of two elements, the second of which is pharmakon. In spite of its apparently obvious interpretation referring to a remedy, this term was used in antiquity to refer to both a remedy and a poison. Its exact meaning was defined by using a determinant (such as esthlon (salutary) or kakon (deadly) that helped clarify its fundamental ambiguity. ” The association of the two elements, alexand pharmakon, may signify both the treatment (5alex-) of the deadly substances introduced into, or in contact with, the human body, or healing medicines (5pharmakon).
P. 105À22. CHAPTER 5 Nicander, Thêriaka, and Alexipharmaka: Venoms, Poisons, and Literature Alain Touwaide The Thêriaka and Alexipharmaka, by the otherwise not-well-known ancient Greek author Nicander of Colophon, are probably the most paradoxical works in the history of toxicology [1]. They have been transmitted by more than 40 manuscripts—one of which dates as far back as the tenth century and is richly illustrated—with multiple editions, translations, and commentaries by Renaissance physicians and scholars.