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Author Newson, Linda A., author

Title Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru : apothecaries, science and society / by Linda A. Newson
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Atlantic World Ser
Atlantic World Ser
Contents Medicines : empire, science and society -- Learning to make medicines -- The medicines business -- Trading medicines and materia medica -- Selecting materia medica -- Making medicines -- The social world of apothecaries -- Persistent practices -- Appendix A: Books shipped from Spain by the apothecary Juan Sanchez in 1591 -- Appendix B: List of materia medica found in pharmacies in Spain and Lima -- Appendix C: Books shipped from Spain to Doctor Melchor de Amusco in nombre de Dios, 1584 -- Glossary
Summary "Based on extensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Italy, Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru examines how apothecaries in Lima were trained, ran their businesses, traded medicinal products, prepared medicines, and found their place in society. In the book, Newson argues that apothecaries had the potential to be innovators in science, especially in the New World where they encountered new environments and diverse healing traditions. However, it shows that despite experimental tendencies among some apothecaries, they generally adhered to traditional humoral practices and imported materia medica from Spain rather than adopt native plants or exploit the region's rich mineral resources. This adherence was not due to state regulation, but reflected the entrenchment of humoral beliefs in popular thought and their promotion by the Church and Inquisition"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pharmacists -- Peru -- Lima -- History
Medicine -- Peru -- Lima -- History
Materia medica -- Peru -- Lima -- History
Pharmacy -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Lima -- History
Science -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Lima -- History
Pharmacists
Medicine
Materia Medica
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
Intellectual life
International relations
Materia medica
Medicine
Pharmacists
Pharmacy -- Social aspects
Science -- Social aspects
Social conditions
SUBJECT Lima (Peru) -- Social conditions
Lima (Peru) -- Intellectual life
Lima (Peru) -- Relations -- Spain
Spain -- Relations -- Peru -- Lima
Peru -- History -- 1548-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100207
Subject Peru
Peru -- Lima
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017031403
ISBN 9789004351271
9004351272
9004350632
9789004350632