Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

<p>1. Poison and Its Dose: Paracelsus on Toxicology<br>2. The Golden Age of Medieval Islamic Toxicology<br>3. Maimonides’ Book on Poisons and the Protection Against Lethal Drugs<br>4. Pietro d’Abano, De venenis: Reintroducing Greek Toxicology into Late Medieval Medicine<br>5. The Case Against the Borgias: Motive, Opportunity, and Means<br>6. Aqua Tofana<br>7. Poisons and the Prince: Toxicology and Statecraft at the Medici Grand Ducal Court<br>8. Georgius Agricola, a Pioneer in the Toxic Hazards of Mining, and His Influence<br>9. Jan Baptist Van Helmont and the Medical–Alchemical Perspectives of Poison<br>10. Origin of Myths Related to Curative, Antidotal and Other Medicinal Properties of Animal “Horns” in the Middle Ages<br>11. Animal Stones and the Dark Age of Bezoars<br>12. Fossil Sharks’ Teeth as Alexipharmics<br>13. Catherine La Voisin: Poisons and Magic at the Royal Court of Louis XIV<br>14. A Late Medieval Criminal Prosecution for Poisoning: The Failed Murder Trial of Margarida de Portu (1396)<br>15. Animal Venoms in the Middle Ages<br>16. Medical Literature on Poison, c. 1300–1600</p>