Article ID: CBB281996838

Storia moderna della calamita e della sua virtù medicinale (2018)

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The ancients employed the magnet to treat some ailments, especially gout. The mineral was pulverized and transformed into compounds to be ingested or in ointments. From the seventeenth century, these stones were applied directly on the parts in order to be treated, because it was believed that the curative effect derived from their specific physical properties. Fragments of magnetized iron were wrapped in flannel bags and worn as necklaces. In 1811, Giuseppe Saverio Poli (1746-1825) published his "Breve saggio sulla calamita e sulla sua virtù medicinale" ("Brief essay on the magnet and its medicinal virtue"), an instruction booklet to manufacture magnetic talismans and to use them to cure headaches, toothaches and other ailments. Poli believed that the magnet could be a “wonderful drug”. He wrote a reasoned and scientific manual for therapeutic experimentation of magnetism. The medical theory of the magnet was called “mineral magnetism” to distinguish it from Mesmer’s “animal magnetism”.

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Authors & Contributors
Vicentini, Chiara Beatrice
Cipriani, Giovanni
Gemelli, Benedino
Vannozzi, Francesca
Orsini, Davide
Valacchi, Maria Luisa
Journals
Atti e Memorie, Rivista di Storia della Farmacia
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Publishers
Aracne
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
Franco Angeli
L'Erma di Bretschneider
Mimesis
Olschki
Concepts
Medicine
Pharmacy
Therapeutics
Pharmacology
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Physicians; doctors
People
Baglivi, Giorgio
Fothergill, John
Galen
Malpighi, Marcello
Pliny the Elder
Viti, Ludovico Pacino
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Ancient
15th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
Tuscany (Italy)
Rome (Italy)
Europe
Switzerland
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