Histories of mercury in medicine across Asia and beyond
By: edited by Dagmar Wujastyk
Contributors: Wujastyk, Dagmar, editor; Universität Zürich
Edition: First edition.
Series: Indian medical tradition -- volume 12; Indian medical tradition -- volume 12.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9788120840805
Subjects: Mercury; Congresses; Therapeutic use; History
Notes: "The chapters of this book originated as papers delivered at the University of Zürich in February 2013 at ... under the title, "Mercury in Medicine: Fluid Economies of Knowledge and Trade""--Foreword by the general editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes passages in Persian.
Table of contents: title: Histories of mercury in medicine across Asia and beyond  -- Dagmar Wujastyk; title: Healing with mercury : the uses of mercury in Arabic medical literature  -- Natalia Bachour; title: Biographies and knowledge transmission of mercury processing in twentieth century Tibet  -- Barbar Gerke; title: Cinnabar, calomel and the art of kushtasazi : mercurial preparations in Unani medicine  -- Claudia Preckel; title: Preserving identity or promoting safety? the issue of mercury in Siddha medicine : a brake on the crossing of frontiers / Briggitte Sebastia --; title: Early Persian medical works on antisyphilitic mercury medicines  -- Johannes Thomann; title: Antisyphilitic mercury drugs in early modern China and Japan  -- Daniel Trambaiolo; title: Medicinal mercury in early modern Portuguese records : recipes and methods from eighteenth-century medical guidebooks  -- Timothy Walker; title: Mercury as an antiphilitic in Ayurvedic medicine -- Dagmar Wujastyk.