A History of Geology and Medicine (2013)
C. J. Duffin (Editor)
Moody, R. T. J. (Editor)
Gardner-Thorpe, C. (Editor)
Geological Society of London
Volume: 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.
...MoreReview Peter A. Leggat (2015) Review of "A History of Geology and Medicine". Health and History (pp. 78-80).
Chapter C. Gardner-Thorpe (2013) Education Forms the Tender Mind. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 329-337).
Chapter H. Guly (2013) Medical Geologists During the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 455-462).
Chapter C. J. Duffin (2013) History of the Pharmaceutical Use of Pumice. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 157-169).
Chapter C. Cristini; A. F. Franchini; L. Lorusso; B. Falconi; A. Porro (2013) Vomiting Stones: Mental Illness and Forensic Medicine in 18th Century Italy. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 463-468).
Chapter E. Linan; M. Linan; J. Carrasco (2013) Cryptopalaeontology. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 45-64).
Chapter F. A. Franchini; L. Lorusso; B. Falconi; A. Porro (2013) Geology, Conservation and Dissolution of Corpses by Paolo Gorini (1813-1881). In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 469-474).
Chapter C. J. Duffin (2013) The Gem Electuary. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 81-111).
Chapter C. J. Duffin (2013) Geology as Medicine and Medics as Geologists. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 1-6).
Chapter C. J. Duffin (2013) Lithotherapeutical Research Sources from Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 7-43).
Chapter P. L. Smedley; N. S. Robins (2013) Groundwater - Medicine by the Glassful?. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 261-267).
Chapter R. Console (2013) Pharmaceutical Use of Gold from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 171-191).
Chapter J. Carrasco; M. Linan (2013) The Stomatological Use of Stones Cited in the Kitab Al-Tasrif Treatise (Abulcasis, 1000 Ce). In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 65-80).
Chapter M. D. S. Barroso (2013) Bezoar Stones, Magic, Science and Art. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 193-207).
Chapter J. H. Pearn; C. Gardner-Thorpe (2013) Sunday Stone: An Enduring Metaphor of Mining Diseases and Underground Mining Conditions. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 269-278).
Chapter E. Hoch (2013) Diagnosing Fossilization in the Nordic Renaissance: An Investigation into the Correspondence of Ole Worm (1588-1654). In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 307-327).
Chapter A. Macgregor (2013) Medicinal Terra Sigillata: A Historical, Geographical and Typological Review. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 113-136).
Chapter S. Wills (2013) John Whitaker Hulke, Surgeon and Palaeontologist. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 409-427).
Chapter D. C. Angetter; B. Hubmann; J. Seidl (2013) Physicians and Their Contribution to the Early History of Earth Sciences in Austria. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 445-454).
Chapter C. J. Duffin (2013) Some Early Eighteenth Century Geological Materia Medica. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 209-233).
Chapter J. J. Liston (2013) From Obstetrics to Oryctology: Inside the Mind of William Hunter (1718-1783). In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 349-373).
Chapter L. G. Wilson (2013) John Jeremiah Bigsby, MD: British Army Physician and Pioneer North American Geologist. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 375-394).
Chapter M. Aliverti (2013) Religiosity and Magic in Some Lithoiatric Practices of European Folk Medicine. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 235-242).
Chapter W. D. I. Rolfe (2013) Materia Medica in the Seventeenth-Century Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 137-156).
Chapter B. P. Bergman (2013) The Influence of Geology in the Development of Public Health. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 279-287).
Chapter J. Bek-Thomsen (2013) From Flesh to Fossils - Nicolaus Steno's Anatomy of the Earth. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 289-305).
Chapter T. Pointon; D. M. Martill (2013) Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle's Contribution to the Popularity of Pterodactyls. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 429-443).
Chapter C. Lewis (2013) James Parkinson's 'System of Successive Creations'. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 339-348).
Chapter G. C. Hull (2013) Five Eighteenth-Century Medical Polymaths. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 395-407).
Chapter J. D. Mather (2013) Britain's Spa Heritage: A Hydrogeological Appraisal. In: A History of Geology and Medicine (pp. 243-260).
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