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‘To Cause Sleepe Safe and Shure’: Dangerous Substances, Sleep Medicine and Poison Theories in Early Modern England
Recipes found in letters and manuscript receipt books testify to the use of potentially lethal substances in domestic sleep medicine. This article examines the theory behind the use of poisons to induce sleep, contrasting Galenic theory with the radical approach of the Paracelsians. According to Gal...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9086770/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35558657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab064 |