History of Geology and Medicine, A
Print publication date: 06/12/2013
Regional Geology and General Interest, History of Geology, Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publication
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862393561
Weight: 1.23kg
Number of pages: 512
£125.00
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Product Code: SP375
Edited by C.J. Duffin, R.T.J. Moody and C. Gardner-Thorpe
Special Publication 375
The historical links between Geology and Medicine are surprisingly numerous and diverse. This, the first ever volume dedicated to the subject, contains contributions from an international authorship of geologists, historians and medical professionals.
Rocks, minerals, fossils and earths have been used therapeutically since earliest times and details recorded on ancient papyri, clay tablets, medieval manuscripts and early published sources. Pumice was used to clean teeth, antimony to heal wounds, clays as antidotes to poison, gold to cure haemorrhoids and warts, and gem pastes to treat syphilis and the plague, while mineral springs preserved health. Geology was crucial in the development of public health. Medical men making important geological contributions include Steno, Worm, Parkinson, Bigsby, William Hunter, Jenner, John Hulke, Conan Doyle, Gorini and various Antarctic explorers.
A History of Geology and Medicine will be of particular interest to Earth scientists, medical personnel, historians of science and the general reader who has an interest in science.
Published online 14/11/2013. Print copy available from 06/12/2013. http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/375/1
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DUFFIN, C. J. Geology as medicine and medics as geologists
DUFFIN, C. J. Lithotherapeutical research sources from antiquity to the mid-eighteenth century
LIñáN, E., LIñáN, M. & CARRASCO, J. Cryptopalaeontology
CARRASCO, J. & LIñáN, M. The stomatological use of stones cited in the Kitab al-tasrif treatise (Abulcasis, 1000 CE)
DUFFIN, C. J. The gem electuary
MACGREGOR, A. Medicinal terra sigillata: a historical, geographical and typological review
ROLFE, W. D. I. Materia medica in the seventeenth-century Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo
DUFFIN, C. J. History of the pharmaceutical use of pumice
CONSOLE, R. Pharmaceutical use of gold from antiquity to the seventeenth century
BARROSO, M. D. S. Bezoar stones, magic, science and art
DUFFIN, C. J. Some early eighteenth century geological Materia Medica
ALIVERTI, M. Religiosity and magic in some lithoiatric practices of European folk medicine
MATHER, J. D. Britain’s spa heritage: a hydrogeological appraisal
ROBINS, N. S. & SMEDLEY, P. L. Groundwater – Medicine by the Glassful?
PEARN, J. H. & GARDNER-THORPE, C. Sunday Stone: an enduring metaphor of mining diseases and underground mining conditions
BERGMAN, B. P. The influence of geology in the development of public health
BEK-THOMSEN, J. From flesh to fossils – Nicolaus Steno’s anatomy of the Earth
HOCH, E. Diagnosing fossilization in the Nordic Renaissance: an investigation into the correspondence of Ole Worm (1588–1654)
GARDNER-THORPE, C. Education forms the tender mind
LEWIS, C. James Parkinson’s ‘system of successive creations’
LISTON, J. J. From obstetrics to oryctology: inside the mind of William Hunter (1718–1783)
WILSON, L. G. John Jeremiah Bigsby, MD: British Army physician and pioneer North American geologist
HULL, G. C. Five eighteenth-century medical polymaths
WILLS, S. John Whitaker Hulke, surgeon and palaeontologist
MARTILL, D. M. & POINTON, T. Dr Arthur Conan Doyle’s contribution to the popularity of pterodactyls
ANGETTER, D. C., HUBMANN, B. & SEIDL, J. Physicians and their contribution to the early history of earth sciences in Austria
GULY, H. Medical geologists during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration
PORRO, A., CRISTINI, C., FALCONI, B., FRANCHINI, A. F. & LORUSSO, L. Vomiting stones: mental illness and forensic medicine in 18th century Italy
LORUSSO, L., FALCONI, B., FRANCHINI, F. A. & PORRO, A. Geology, conservation and dissolution of corpses by Paolo Gorini (1813–1881)
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