TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grell,Ole Peter
AU  - Arrizabalaga,Jon
AU  - Arrizabalaga,Jon
AU  - Cunningham,Andrew
AU  - Cunningham,Andrew
AU  - Grell,Ole Peter
TI  - It All Depends on the Dose: Poisons and Medicines in European History
SN  - 9781315521084; 9781315521091
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - History
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Medicine and Nursing
KW  - Medicines
KW  - poisons
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29720
ER  -