Resumen de La Thériaque. Histoire d’ un remède millénaire, by Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau, eds.
Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau, eds., La Thériaque. Histoire d’ un remède millénaire. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020. 436 pp. 12 col. illus. ISBN 978-2-251-45167-1.
At a time when the interest in pharmaceutical traditions is on the rise, numerous scholars will welcome this interdisciplinary collection of essays on theriac. The legendary drug was kept in use for almost two millennia across Europe, North Africa, Asia (and after the European conquest in the Americas) and was arguably the most debated medicine in the Galenic tradition. Yet, its history, as Véronique Boudon-Millot and Françoise Micheau acknowledge in the introduction, is ...
