A Bridge to the Underworld? An Explanation of the Act of Digging up Plant Roots in Early Modern Medical Fictions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Illustrations IX
5. List of Contributors XIII
6. Foreword 1
7. Introduction: The World of Plants in Premodern Medical Knowledge 3
8. A More Modern Order: Virtual Collaboration in the Roccabonella Herbal 19
9. Mediterranean Botany. Making Cross-Cultural Knowledge about Materia Medica in the Sixteenth Century 53
10. A Bridge to the Underworld? An Explanation of the Act of Digging up Plant Roots in Early Modern Medical Fictions 71
11. Not just a Garden of Simples: Arranging the Growing Floristic Diversity in the Leiden Botanical Garden (1594–1740) 99
12. From the Analogy with Animals to the Anatomy of Plants in Medicine: The Physiology of Living Processes from Harvey to Malpighi 121
13. Opium Taking: Blurring Experimentation and Pharmaceutical Theories 145
14. The Accommodation of New World Plants in Early Modern Pharmacology: The Case of Cinchona Bark and the Challenges to Seventeenth-Century Galenism 169
15. Knots in a Web: Botany, Materia Medica, and South Asian Languages in the Publication of Paul Hermann’s Ceylon-Herbaria (ca. 1690–1770) 197
16. Bibliography 211
17. Index 253