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Title The apothecary's chest : magic, art and medication / edited by Konstantina Georganta, Fabienne Collignon and Anne-Marie Millim.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 165 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Proceedings of a symposium of the same name held at the University of Glasgow on Nov. 24, 2007. Cf. acknowledgments.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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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Summary ÂThe Apothecaryâs Chest: Magic, Art and Medicationâ was a one-day symposium held at the University of Glasgow on November 24, 2007. The symposium called for a discussion on the evolution of the notions of mysticism, knowledge and superstition in the.
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Subject Pharmacology -- History -- Congresses.
Pharmacology.
History.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Congresses.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Medicine and art -- Congresses.
Medicine and art.
Literature and medicine -- Congresses.
Literature and medicine.
Healing -- Congresses.
Healing.
Pharmacology -- history.
Magic -- history.
Medicine in Literature.
Indexed Term Apothecary's chest
Medication
Magic
Art
Genre/Form Congress.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Georganta, Konstantina.
Collignon, Fabienne.
Millim, Anne-Marie.
Other Form: Print version: Apothecary's chest. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 9781443804943 (DLC) 2009379935 (OCoLC)319585133
ISBN 9781443807333 (electronic book)
1443807338 (electronic book)
1282191098
9781282191099
9781443804943
1443804940