"The chapters of this book originated as papers delivered at the University of Zürich in February 2013 at ... under the title, "Mercury in Medicine: Fluid Economies of Knowledge and Trade""--Foreword by the general editors. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Mercury as an antiphilitic in Ayurvedic medicine / Dagmar Wujastyk. Healing with mercury : the uses of mercury in Arabic medical literature / Natalia Bachour -- Biographies and knowledge transmission of mercury processing in twentieth century Tibet / Barbar Gerke -- Cinnabar, calomel and the art of kushtasazi : mercurial preparations in Unani medicine / Claudia Preckel -- Preserving identity or promoting safety? the issue of mercury in Siddha medicine : a brake on the crossing of frontiers / Briggitte Sebastia -- Early Persian medical works on antisyphilitic mercury medicines / Johannes Thomann -- Antisyphilitic mercury drugs in early modern China and Japan / Daniel Trambaiolo -- Medicinal mercury in early modern Portuguese records : recipes and methods from eighteenth-century medical guidebooks / Timothy Walker -- Mercury as an antiphilitic in Ayurvedic medicine / Dagmar Wujastyk.
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