Article ID: CBB649840682

Moving Plants, Transforming Medicine (2018)

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The introduction of non-native medicinal plants into a new environment and the subsequent modification(s) of medicine are often considered, in medical historiography, to be a defining process of the Renaissance characterized by the discovery, importation to Europe, medicinal use, and study of the species from a world that became ipso facto new upon its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492. From Oviedo to Hernandez and the publication of the Thesaurus by the Accademia dei Lincei in 1651, passing through Nicolas Monardes and the national competition arisen out of the introduction of tobacco into medicine, without mentioning guaiac for the treatment of syphilis, the 16th and the early 17th centuries went from one discovery to another, with therapeutic trials and successes, ephemeral and durable treatments, but also false promises and failures, all of which deeply transformed therapeutics.

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Authors & Contributors
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
Rotelli, Federica
Valentino, Danilo
Ramos de Viesca, Maríablanca
Brinckmann, Josef
Bradley, Sean
Concepts
Pharmacy
Medicine
Botany
Plants
Therapeutics
Medicinal plants
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
Early modern
18th century
Modern
Places
Italy
Europe
China
Middle and Near East
England
Mediterranean region
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