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A Change in the Substance: Theory and its Limits in Galen’s Simples (2020)

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Galen’s Simples is a work of enormous historical importance, which has however received little detailed analysis in modern times, from a theoretical or intellectual-historical point of view. The present paper makes a preliminary attempt at such an analysis, offering both an overview of its content and context and a focussed analysis of one particular theoretical area. There are three main aims: (A) to give a synoptic account of the most important theoretical questions raised in Simples, while also contextualizing the work within Galen’s oeuvre and within Graeco-Roman pharmacological traditions more broadly; (B) to give a detailed account of one theoretical concept in particular, that of change in or through the whole substance (καθ᾽ ὅλην τὴν οὐσίαν) – as it appears both in Simples and in other relevant texts; (C) to give a very brief account of the Nachleben of this concept in Early Modern times, which may be thought to shed further light on it, or at least to cast it in a fresh perspective.

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Article Matteo Martelli; Caroline Petit; Lucia Raggetti (2020) Introduction. New Perspectives on Galen’s Treatise On Simple Drugs and the History of Pharmacology. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 6-15). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Raggetti, Lucia
Martelli, Matteo
Lehmhaus, Lennart
Wilkins, John
Iorio, Silvia
Havrda, Matyás
Concepts
Materia medica
Pharmacology
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Medicine
Botany
Human body
Time Periods
Ancient
Early modern
Medieval
Renaissance
18th century
16th century
Places
Rome (Italy)
Greece
Paraguay
Spain
Italy
Europe
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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