Practical Materia Medica Research Articles

Forming, transfer and globalization of medical-pharmaceutical knowledge in South East Asian missions (17th to 18th c.) – historical dimensions and modern perspectives

From the 17th to the 18th centuries, missionaries in Southeast Asia dedicated themselves to providing and establishing a professional medical-pharmaceutical supply for the local population and therefore explored the genuine Materia medica for easily available and affordable remedies, especially medicinal plants. In characteristic medical-pharmaceutical compendia, which can be classified as missionary pharmacopoeias, they laid down their knowledge to advise others and to guarantee a professional health care. As their knowledge often resulted from an exchange with indigenous communities, these compendia provide essential information about traditional plant uses of Southeast Asian people. Individual missionaries such as the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706) not only strove to explore medicinal plants but performed botanical studies and even composed comprehensive herbals. The Jesuit missionaries in particular played roles in both the order’s own global network of transfer of medicinal drugs and knowledge about the application, and within the contemporary local and European scientific networks which included, for example, the famous Royal Society of London. The results of their studies were distributed all over the world, were introduced into the practical Materia medica of other regions, and contributed significantly to the academization of knowledge. In our article we will explain the different intentions and methods of exploring, the resulting works and the consequences for the forming of the pharmaceutical and scientific knowledge. Finally, we will show the options which the works of the missionaries can offer for the saving of traditional ethnopharmacological knowledge and for the development of modern phytotherapeutics and pharmaceutical supply. The publication is based on a comprehensive study on the phenomenon of missionary pharmacy which has been published as a book in 2011 (Anagnostou, 2011a) and shows now the potential of historical medical-pharmaceutical works written in the Asian missions of the 17th to 18th century and influenced by ethnopharmaceutical knowledge and the relevance of historical studies for modern investigation in phytotherapy.

Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar, Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 7, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2008, pp. x, 619, €169.00, $237.00 (hardback 978-90-04-16120-7).

Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar, Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 7, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2008, pp. x, 619, €169.00, $237.00 (hardback 978-90-04-16120-7).

Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah (review)

Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah (review)

Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah

Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah

Practical Materia Medica and Prescription Writing.

This book, devoted to the teaching of prescription writing, is divided into three parts. The first contains an alphabetical list of drugs, giving the data required for prescribing them and numerous illustrative prescriptions. The latter strike one as unnecessarily complex in a number of instances, the majority of them having four or more ingredients. The second part takes up the principles of prescribing. The use of the metric system is advocated. The necessity for the medical student to be familiar with the use of Latin in prescription writing is stressed. The third part gives reproductions of actual prescriptions illustrating common errors and of the same prescription written as it should be. There is also an appendix giving problems in prescription writing. The whole book is a serious attempt to teach prescription writing in the conventional manner. One may regret that not more attention is given to the general principles underlying

Practical Materia Medica and Prescription Writing With Illustrations

Practical Materia Medica and Prescription Writing With Illustrations

Book Review Practical Materia Medica and Prescription Writing . By Oscar W. Bethea, M.D., Ph.G., F.C.S. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company. London: Stanley Phillips. 1915.

Book Review Practical Materia Medica and Prescription Writing . By Oscar W. Bethea, M.D., Ph.G., F.C.S. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company. London: Stanley Phillips. 1915.

Book Review Practical Materia Medica for Nurses . With an Appendix Containing Poisons and Their Antidotes, with Posion-Emergencies; Mineral Waters; Weights and Measures; Dose-List; and a Glossary of the Terms Used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By Emily A. M. Stoney, Late Superintendent of Training School for Nurses, Carney Hospital, South Boston, Mass., etc. Third edition, thoroughly revised. Philadelphia and

Book Review Practical Materia Medica for Nurses . With an Appendix Containing Poisons and Their Antidotes, with Posion-Emergencies; Mineral Waters; Weights and Measures; Dose-List; and a Glossary of the Terms Used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By Emily A. M. Stoney, Late Superintendent of Training School for Nurses, Carney Hospital, South Boston, Mass., etc. Third edition, thoroughly revised. Philadelphia and

BACTERIOLOGY AND SURGICAL TECHNIC FOR NURSES

superintendent of the Training-School for Nurses, St. Anthony's Hospital, Rock Island, 111., author of “Practical Points in Nursing” and “Practical Materia Medica for Nurses.” Second edition. Thoroughly revised and enlarged by F. R. Griffith, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania), of New York. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.

Recent Literature Bacteriology and Surgical Technic for Nurses . By Emily M. A. Stoney, Superintendent of the Training School for Nurses, St. Anthony's Hospital, Rock Island, Ill.; author of " Practical Points in Nursing," " Practical Materia Medica for Nurses," etc. Second edition. Thoroughly revised and enlarged. By Frederic Richardson Griffith, M.D. (Univ. of Penn.), of New York, Surgeon, Fellow

Recent Literature Bacteriology and Surgical Technic for Nurses . By Emily M. A. Stoney, Superintendent of the Training School for Nurses, St. Anthony's Hospital, Rock Island, Ill.; author of " Practical Points in Nursing," " Practical Materia Medica for Nurses," etc. Second edition. Thoroughly revised and enlarged. By Frederic Richardson Griffith, M.D. (Univ. of Penn.), of New York, Surgeon, Fellow

Recent Literature Practical Materia Medica for Nurses with an Appendix containing Poisons and their Antidotes, with Poison Emergencies; Mineral Waters; Weights and Measures; Dose List; and a Glossary of the terms used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics . By Emily A. M. Stoney, Graduate of the Training School for Nurses, Lawrence, Mass., late Head Nurse, Mercy Hospital, Chicago, Ill., etc.

Recent Literature Practical Materia Medica for Nurses with an Appendix containing Poisons and their Antidotes, with Poison Emergencies; Mineral Waters; Weights and Measures; Dose List; and a Glossary of the terms used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics . By Emily A. M. Stoney, Graduate of the Training School for Nurses, Lawrence, Mass., late Head Nurse, Mercy Hospital, Chicago, Ill., etc.

Practical Materia Medica for Nurses, with an Appendix Containing Poisons and Their Antidotes, with Poison Emergencies, Mineral Waters, Weights and Measures, Dose List, and a Glossary of the Terms used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

Practical Materia Medica for Nurses, with an Appendix Containing Poisons and Their Antidotes, with Poison Emergencies, Mineral Waters, Weights and Measures, Dose List, and a Glossary of the Terms used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

Practical Materia Medica for Nurses, with an Appendix Containing Poisons and Their Antidotes, with Poison Emergencies, Mineral Waters, Weights and Measures, Dose List, and a Glossary of the Terms used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

Practical Materia Medica for Nurses, with an Appendix Containing Poisons and Their Antidotes, with Poison Emergencies, Mineral Waters, Weights and Measures, Dose List, and a Glossary of the Terms used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

Practical Materia Medica for Nurses. With an Appendix Containing Poisons and Their Antidotes, with Poison Emergencies, Mineral Waters, Weights and Measures; Dose List; and a Glossary of the Terms used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

Practical Materia Medica for Nurses. With an Appendix Containing Poisons and Their Antidotes, with Poison Emergencies, Mineral Waters, Weights and Measures; Dose List; and a Glossary of the Terms used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

THE FORMATION OF POISONS BY MICRO-ORGANISMS. CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO THE PRODUCTION OF DISEASE.

[Presented in Section of Practical Medicine and Materia Medica of the American Medical Association, May, 1884.] INTRODUCTION. If we review the history of the observation and experiment that has been had, bearing on the relations of micro-organisms to the production of disease, we may formulate the following propositions: 1. Experiment and observation has shown that there are many varieties of micro-organisms that do not produce disease or injury; that the mere presence of these life forms is not sufficient to cause disease. 2. Experiment has, also, shown that there are certain varieties of micro-organisms that do uniformly induce disease when they obtain entrance into the bodies of animals, or men. 3. All through the experimentation on this subject it has been noticed that poisons have appeared in connection with the disease producing organisms. 4. These poisons seem to be a product of the micro-organisms; and while produced only in connection

ON THE TREATMENT OF TYPHOID FEVER.

Read in Section on Practical Medicine and Materia Medica, American Medical Association, May, 1884. My apology for occupying the valuable time of this Section must be found in my conviction of the importance of the subject I propose to discuss. I know it is thought trite and hackneyed, but the discussion of it cannot be considered as finished until there be a better agreement among us as to the treatment of this disease, or until the mortality from it is diminished much below its present rate. It is claimed to have been reduced from the 18 to 20 per cent. of a half century ago to 10 or 12 per cent.; but these lowest figures are still too high, and it is to be hoped that the profession will not be satisfied until there is a much greater reduction. My object is not to boast of any great success in