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Toxicology in Antiquity provides an authoritative and fascinating exploration into the use of toxins and poisons in antiquity. It brings together the two previously published… Read more
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Toxicology in Antiquity provides an authoritative and fascinating exploration into the use of toxins and poisons in antiquity. It brings together the two previously published shorter volumes on the topic, as well as adding considerable new information. Part of the History of Toxicology and Environmental Health series, it covers key accomplishments, scientists, and events in the broad field of toxicology, including environmental health and chemical safety. This first volume sets the tone for the series and starts at the very beginning, historically speaking, with a look at toxicology in ancient times. The book explains that before scientific research methods were developed, toxicology thrived as a very practical discipline. People living in ancient civilizations readily learned to distinguish safe substances from hazardous ones, how to avoid these hazardous substances, and how to use them to inflict harm on enemies. It also describes scholars who compiled compendia of toxic agents. New chapters in this edition focus chiefly on evidence for the use of toxic agents derived from religious texts.
Toxicologists, environmental health professionals, science historians, general audience
1. The Prehistory of Poison Arrows
2. Beetle and Plant Arrow Poisons of the San People of Southern Africa
3. Toxicology in Ancient Egypt
4. The Death of Cleopatra: Suicide by Snakebite or Poisoned by Her Enemies?
5. Kohl Use in Antiquity: Effects on the Eye
6. Nicander, Thêriaka, and Alexipharmaka: Venoms, Poisons, and Literature
7. The Case Against Socrates and His Execution
8. Murder, Execution, and Suicide in Ancient Greece and Rome
9. The Oracle at Delphi: The Pythia and the Pneuma, Intoxicating Gas Finds, and Hypotheses
10. Alexander the Great: A Questionable Death
11. Mithridates of Pontus and His Universal Antidote
12. Theriaca Magna: The Glorious Cure-All Remedy
13. The gates to hell in antiquity and their relation to geogenic CO2 emissions
14. Lead Poisoning and the Downfall of Rome: Reality or Myth?
15. Poisons, Poisoners, and Poisoning in Ancient Rome
16. Chemical and Biological Warfare in Antiquity
17. Asclepius and the Snake as Toxicological Symbols in Ancient Greece and Rome
18. Anthropogenic Air Pollution in Ancient Times
19. Poisoning in Ancient Rome: Images and Rules
20. “Gleaming and Deadly White”: Toxic Cosmetics in the Roman World
21. Cherchez la femme: three infamous poisoners of ancient Rome
22. Did Hannibal really poison himself?
23. Drugs, Suppositories, and Cult Worship in Antiquity
24. Entheogens in Ancient Times: Wine and the Rituals of Dionysus
25. Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and the Ancient Mystery Religions
26. Ancient Mystery Initiation: Toxic Priestesses and Vaginal Communion
27. Harmful Botanicals
28. Pearl, an Ancient Antidote of Eastern Origin
29. Rhetoric, Demons, and the Poisoner's Tongue in Judaism and Early Christianity
30. Poisonous Medicine in Ancient China
31. Toxicity of Ayurvedic Medicines and Safety Concerns: Ancient and Modern Perspectives
32. Mushroom Intoxication in Mesoamerica
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