Clays and Health [[electronic resource] ] : Properties and Therapeutic Uses / / by Michel Rautureau, Celso de Sousa Figueiredo Gomes, Nicole Liewig, Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi
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Rautureau Michel
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Clays and Health [[electronic resource] ] : Properties and Therapeutic Uses / / by Michel Rautureau, Celso de Sousa Figueiredo Gomes, Nicole Liewig, Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XXIV, 217 p. 35 illus., 4 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina: | 624.151 |
| Soggetto topico: | Geotechnical engineering |
| Complementary medicine | |
| Medicine—History | |
| Mineralogy | |
| Materials science | |
| Pharmaceutical technology | |
| Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences | |
| Complementary & Alternative Medicine | |
| History of Medicine | |
| Characterization and Evaluation of Materials | |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Figueiredo GomesCelso de Sousa |
| LiewigNicole | |
| Katouzian-SafadiMehrnaz | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Chapter 1 – Background -- Chapter 2 - Definition of clay and clay mineral -- Chapter 3 - Historical aspects of a natural pharmacopeia: Clay in the corpus of “the medieval pharmacopeia” written in Arabic -- Chapter 4 - Description of clay minerals -- Chapter 5 - Reactivity of clay minerals depending upon their structural properties -- Chapter 6 - General information on applications of clay in the fields of health and well-being -- Chapter 7 - Therapies based on clay -- Chapter 8 - Principal modes of clay use -- Chapter 9 - Provisioning, recycling and trade of clay -- Appendix -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Index. . |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Originally published in French, this updated and expanded English translation offers a definitive treatment on clays and effects on human health including the long history of clays used as pharmaceutical and therapeutic agents, the origins of clays, their structural properties and modes of action. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Clays and Health |
| ISBN: | 3-319-42884-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910254005203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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