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" The apothecary's chest : "
edited by Konstantina Georganta, Fabienne Collignon and Anne-Marie Millim.
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614736
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The apothecary's chest : : magic, art and medication /\ edited by Konstantina Georganta, Fabienne Collignon and Anne-Marie Millim.
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Newcastle upon Tyne :: Cambridge Scholars Pub.,, 2009.
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xv, 165 p. :: ill. ;; 22 cm.
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1443804940
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: 9781443804943
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Proceedings of a symposium of the same name held at the University of Glasgow on Nov. 24, 2007.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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The phrenological dreamer : the popular medical and fictional writing of Robert Macnish (1802-1837) / Megan Coyer -- Animal magic : conjury and power in colonial taxidermy / John Miller -- A wizard/witch's duel : gender power struggles and the occult in surrealism / Rachel Grew -- Old spells, magic herbs and frightening creatures : the curandera in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / João de Mancelos -- The rising gorge : poison, Hamlet and sin / Christa Mahalik -- Prescription narratives : rereading Joseph Cornell's Pharmacy series as a "modernist antidote" / Catriona McAra -- Theatres of memory and restraint : Matthew Barney among the Neo-Platonists / Corin Depper -- The popular use of "precious" stones medicinally in early modern Scotland / Tom Blaen -- Theodora, "the pills" and the saints : female practices toward drug prescrtiption, rearrangements of male therapeutic power / Athena Peglidou -- "I will put none of these diseases upon thee (-) for I am the Lord that healeth thee" : Christ as pharmacist and healer in iconography and literature of late medieval and early modern times / Jacek Kowzan -- Magic, mysticism and medicine : the medical career of John Webster (1611-1682) / Lindsey Fitzharris -- "They go by their dreams" : myth-making and rationality in the initiation of the shaman Quesalid / Harry Whitehead -- From mere bellies to the bad shaman : roles of the contemporary poet / Bill Herbert.
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Pharmacology-- History, Congresses.
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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric, Congresses.
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Medicine and art, Congresses.
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Literature and medicine, Congresses.
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Healing, Congresses.
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Georganta, Konstantina.
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Collignon, Fabienne.
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Millim, Anne-Marie.
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