Mixing medicines : the global drug trade and early modern Russia / / Clare Griffin

• Autore: Griffin Clare
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.45098
• Soggetto topico: Drug control; Drug traffic; Drug dealers
• Soggetto non controllato: America; Christianity; Moscow; Muscovy; Paracelsus; Peter Great; Russia; books; botany; bureaucracy; chemicals; corpses; doctoring traditions; drugs; early modern; empire; global; globalization; horn; intertextuality; legislation; manuscript; materia medica; material culture; mummies; pharmacy; prescriptions; print; regulation; religion; sassafras; science; theriac; trade; translation; tsars; unicorns
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia -- Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Half Title Page -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Importance of Lekarstva -- PROTECTING THE TSAR -- INTERNAL AFFAIRS -- POLICING THE MARKETPLACE -- MISSION CREEP -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2: Muscovy's Botanical World -- TRANSLATING THE GARDEN -- PRESCRIBING THE GARDEN -- THE OLD BOTANICAL WORLD -- THE FOURTH PART OF THE WORLD -- EVERYDAY AMERICANA -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3: Selling the Chemical Universe -- PARACELSIAN APOLOGIA -- CHEMICAL ABSENCES -- CHEMICAL MEDICINE RISING -- FOLLOWING THE DOCTORS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4: The Problems of the Flesh -- THE MUSCOVITE BODY -- PROBLEMATIC CORPSES -- EVIL SNAKES -- THERIAC REHABILITATED -- MUMIA RETURNS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5: The New Textual Authorities -- AUTHORSHIP AND INTERTEXTUALITY -- AUTHENTICATING UNICORN HORN -- LEGISLATING THE MARKET -- THE LETTERS OF THE LAW -- PRINTING ADVICE -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion -- Appendix One: Ingredients in the Aptechnaia izba prescriptions from 1581-1582 -- Appendix Two: Ingredients in Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich's prescriptions from April-May 1645 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Mixing Medicines explores the dynamic and complex world of early modern Russian medical drugs. The first study of Russia's involvement in the early modern drug trade, it provides unique insight into how the dramatic reshaping of global trade affected the day-to-day lives of subjects and tsars alike.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mixing Medicines
• ISBN: 0-2280-1284-8; 0-2280-1283-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910774897203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Intoxicating histories.