For over two millennia, clays with perceived medicinal or alexipharmic properties have been recovered in bulk, processed into small troches or pastilles and stamped with a device or ‘seal’ as an indicator of their origin; this practice lent them their commonly applied name – terra sigillata or sealed earth. The first records are confined to the Mediterranean and Aegean regions, but early in the post-medieval period other sources in central and northern Europe came to be exploited. The history of this process of expansion is traced, the principal products of the major sources are identified by their respective seals, and some assessment is made of the validity of claims made for the effectiveness of such clays.
...MoreBook C. J. Duffin; R. T. J. Moody; C. Gardner-Thorpe (2013) A History of Geology and Medicine.
Similar Citations
Article
Yang, Yachang;
Yu2, Shi-Yong;
Zhu, Yizhi;
Shao, Jing;
(2014)
The Making of Fired Clay Bricks in China Some 5000 Years Ago
Article
Mameli, P.;
Mongelli, G.;
Oggiano, G.;
Rovina, D.;
(2014)
First Finding of Early Medieval Iron Slags in Sardinia (Italy): A Geochemical–Mineralogical Approach to Insights into Ore Provenance and Work Activity
Article
Singh, Harkishan;
(2006)
Jyotish Chandra Ghosh (1870--1957) -- The Forgotten and Unsung Pioneer of Pharmacy
Article
Ming, Chen;
(2008)
The Transmission of Foreign Medicine via the Silk Roads in Medieval China: A Case Study of Haiyao Bencao
Book
Plotkin, Mark;
(2000)
Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets
Book
Cowen, David L.;
(2001)
Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618-1847
Article
Trojanowska, A.;
(2005)
Lettuce, “Lactuca sp.”, as a Medicinal Plant in Polish Publications of the 19th Century
Article
Magowska, Anita;
(2008)
Complaints, Charges, and Claims: Apothecaries in Poland in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Article
Eyler, John M.;
(2006)
De Kruif's Boast: Vaccine Trials and the Construction of a Virus
Article
Henderson, Metta Lou;
Wright, Margaret;
(2008)
Sister Pharmacists and Pharmacy Practice from the 1700s to the 1970s.
Book
Scarborough, John;
(2010)
Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium
Article
Leong, Elaine Yuen Tien;
(2008)
Making Medicines in the Early Modern Household
Article
Tomic, Sacha;
(2001)
L'Analyse chimique des végétaux: le cas du quinquina
Book
Williams, Peter O.;
(2010)
The Story of the Wellcome Trust: Unlocking Sir Henry's Legacy to Medical Research
Thesis
Greene, Jeremy Alan;
(2005)
The Therapeutic Transition: Pharmaceuticals and the Marketing of Chronic Disease
Article
Vicentini, Chiara Beatrice;
Altieri, Lorenzo;
Manfredini, Stefano;
(2012)
In Search of Cinchona Substitues in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Article
Kaul, Ravindernath;
(2011)
History of Modern Pharmacy in India---Part 2 The Archival Collection and Writings of Harkishan Singh
Thesis
Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Agyepoma;
(2005)
Bitter Roots: African Science and the Search for Healing Plants in Ghana,1885--2005
Article
Bierman, Annette I.;
(2013)
Dirk Arnold Wittop Koning (1911--2001)
Article
Tishchenko, Evgenii Mikhailovich;
(2013)
A Brief Overview of the History of Pharmacy in Belarus in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
Be the first to comment!