Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Building upon sustained scholarly and popular interest in both alchemy and pre-modern medicine, this volume reveals how physicians practiced alchemy and alchemists produced medicaments. It shows how, besides sharing knowledge, physicians and alchemists engaged in fierce polemics, adapted one another's techniques, and united against common foes. Whether appropriating medical knowledge or defining themselves in opposition to it, alchemical practitioners...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138286362
• ISBN13: 9781138286368
• Release Date: December 2028
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages