The Trouble with Opium. Taste, Reason and Experience in Late Galenic Pharmacology with Special Regard to the University of Leiden (1575–1625)
| Autor: | Saskia Klerk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Philosophy Taste (sociology) media_common.quotation_subject Materia medica Taste Perception Medicine (miscellaneous) Opium Medical practice Epistemology History and Philosophy of Science History 16th Century Physicians Taste Humanism Materia Medica medicine Criticism History Ancient Netherlands medicine.drug media_common |
| Zdroj: | Early Science and Medicine. 19:287-316 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3823 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/15733823-00194p01 |
| Popis: | In the seventeenth century, the discrepancy between the taste of some drugs and their effects on the body was used to criticize Galenic medicine. In this paper, I argue that such contradictions were brought to light by the sixteenth-century study of drug properties within the Galenic tradition itself. Investigating how the taste of a drug corresponded to the effects it had on the body became a core problem for maintaining a medical practice that was both rational and effective. I discuss four physicians, connected to the University of Leiden, who attempted to understand drug properties, including taste, within a Galenic framework. The sixteenth-century discussions about the relationship between the senses, reason and experience, will help us understand the seventeenth-century criticism of Galenic medicine and the importance of discussions about materia medica for ideas regarding the properties of matter proposed in this period. |
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