The History of Medications for Women: Materia Medica Woman

ISBN-13: 9781850700029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 570 str.

Michael J. O'Dowd

Opis

The first work of its kind ever published, this is an incredibly richl y detailed, far-ranging illustrated history of medications for women i n all the great cultures and civilizations from ancient times to the p resent. By a co-author of OFDowd and PhillippFs internationally acclai med The History of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Parthenon Publishing, IS BN 1-85070-224-1), this is the only book that ranges from the origin o f the Rx symbol and the earliest uses of ergometrine, lettuce, and mum my medicine through the history of womenFs medications in ancient Assy ria and Egypt, in Biblical times, in Greece and Rome and Byzantium, in Arab obstetrics and gynecology, in the late Middle Ages, into the 16t h through 20th centuries.

Spis treści

Introduction
ORIGINS
The Prescription
Ergot
Lettuce
Mummy Medicine
CHRONOLOGY
Assyria
Egypt
Biblical Times
Greece and Rome
Byzantium
The Arab Influence
The Late Middle Ages
The Sixteenth Century
The Seventeenth Century
The Eighteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century
The Twentieth Century
SPECIAL SUBJECTS
Anesthesia and Analgesia and the Curse of Eve
Antiseptics, Antibiotics and Chemotherapy
Blood Transfusion and Rhesus Disease
Eclampsia
Family Planning
The Menopause
Uterine Stimulants
CIVILIZATIONS
The Orient
The Americas
APPENDICES
Therapeutical Classification of Remedies
Abbreviations Commonly Used in Prescriptions
Sources of Illustrations

O autorze

O'Dowd\, M.J.