Medical aspects of the late European alchemy.

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dc.contributor.authorKarpenko, Ven_US
dc.date.accessioned1995-01-01en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-27T04:07:59Z
dc.date.available1995-01-01en_US
dc.date.available2009-05-27T04:07:59Z
dc.date.issued1995-01-01en_US
dc.description.abstractMedical trends in European alchemy are discussed. There existed a direction that in curing illnesses made use of various substances known to alchemists. The origin can be traced back to the 14th century and further development of this trend has later led to iatrochemistry. Beside this, there existed all the time the second direction called alchemical medicine. It searched for miraculous universal medicine using for this purpose approaches known from attempts in metal transmutation. Several examples of the confused world of alchemical medicine are brought.en_US
dc.description.affiliationDept. of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKarpenko V. Medical aspects of the late European alchemy. Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad). 1995 ; 25(1-2): 202-15en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/1781
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subject.meshAlchemyen_US
dc.subject.meshEuropeen_US
dc.subject.meshHistory, 15th Centuryen_US
dc.subject.meshHistory, 16th Centuryen_US
dc.subject.meshHistory, 17th Centuryen_US
dc.titleMedical aspects of the late European alchemy.en_US
dc.typeHistorical Articleen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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