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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Beyond Demise: The Long Afterlife of Galenic Pharmacopoeia.- Chapter 2: Galen, De Simplicibus from Byzantium to the Early-Modern World: A Difficult Assimilation?.- Chapter 3: Copyists and Translators of Galen’s De antidotis in the Renaissance: Georgios Alexandrou, Petros Hypselas, Iosephus Struthius, and Michelangelo Angelico.- Chapter 4: Pharmacological Tables of Galen’s De Simplicibus in Leonhart Fuchs and Janus Cornarius.- Chapter 5: A Matter of Taste: Lorenz Gryll and his De Sapore (1566).- Chapter 6: Determining Dosage: The Rationalisation of Therapy in the Long Renaissance.- Chapter 7: Sympathy, Antipathy, and the Nature of Occult Qualities in Galen and Jean Fernel.- Chapter 8: Drug Absorption and Food Digestion in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Galenic Interpretation of Jean Fernel (1567).- Chapter 9: Reductionism and Emergentism in Sixteenth-Century Theories of Antidotes The Cases of Thomas Erastus and Girolamo Mercuriale.- Chapter 10: The Role of Lignum Vitae Guaiacum sanctum L in the Context of Majorcan Reception of Galen’s pharmacology 15th-16th centuries.- Chapter 11: The Columbian Exchange and Galenic Pharmacology: Galenic Materia Medica in the Viceroyalty of New Spain.- Chapter 12: Between Tradition and Transformation: Galenic Simples and Paracelsian Iatrochemistry in Early Modern English Domestic Medicine.- Chapter 13: The Case of Corallium Rubrum: Controversies and Consistencies in the Interpretation of a Galenic Simple in Early Modern England.
