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Las medicinas de la historia española en América : drogas de origen americano y su evolución a modernos medicamentoss = Medicines of Spanish history from America : drugs from America and their evolution to modern drugs

Title
  1. Las medicinas de la historia española en América : drogas de origen americano y su evolución a modernos medicamentoss = Medicines of Spanish history from America : drugs from America and their evolution to modern drugs / Enrique Raviña.
Published by
  1. Santiago de Compostela : Servizo de Publicacións, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ; , MMXVII [2017].
  2. [Spain] : Fundación Lilly
Author
  1. Raviña Rubira, Enrique

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  1. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servicio de Publicacións, publisher.
Description
  1. 307 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. El descubrimiento de América por los españoles significó una nueva fuente de medicamentos pues la gran diversidad de los territorios del Nuevo Mundo ofrecía muevas plantas medicinales y drogas que fueron incorporándose a la farmacopeas y formularios de la época. Esta obra se consagra a las medicinas descubiertas tras la colonización española del continente americano.
  2. The discovery of America meant a new source of drugs. The great biodiversity of the New World territories provided many new medicinal plants and crude drugs, which were incorporated to the armamentarium and pharmacopeias of those times. This book is devoted to medicines discovered after the Spanish settlement in America.
Alternative title
  1. Medicines of Spanish history from America
Subject
  1. Pharmacology > Spain > History
  2. Drugs > America > History
  3. Medicinal plants > America > History
  4. Curare > history
  5. Cinchona
  6. Cinchona Alkaloids > history
  7. Coca
  8. Cocaine > history
  9. History of Medicine
  10. Spain > Colonies > America
  11. Americas
Contents
  1. Prefacio -- Agradecimientos -- Initroducción histórica -- Curare, Un Largo Camino. Curares naturales. Curares sintéticos -- Corteza de Quina. Alcaloides de la corteza de Quina -- Hoja de coca (cocae folium). Cocaína y anestésicos locales -- Miscelánea -- Epílogo -- Conclusión. Nota final -- Collecciones históricas de drogas -- Índice analítico.
  2. Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Historical background -- Curare, A very long journey. Natural Curares. Synthetic Curares. -- Cinchona bark and its alkaloids -- Coca leaf (cocae folium). Cocaine and local anaesthetics -- Miscellaneous -- Epilogue -- Concllusion. Final remarks -- Crude drug collections, The Merck Collections (Drogensammlulng E. Merck, Darmstadt) -- Index.
Call number
  1. JFE 18-1447
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  1. Text in Spanish and English.
Author
  1. Raviña Rubira, Enrique, author.
Title
  1. Las medicinas de la historia española en América : drogas de origen americano y su evolución a modernos medicamentoss = Medicines of Spanish history from America : drugs from America and their evolution to modern drugs / Enrique Raviña.
Publisher
  1. Santiago de Compostela : Servizo de Publicacións, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ; , MMXVII [2017].
Distributor
  1. [Spain] : Fundación Lilly
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
  1. Text in Spanish and English.
Added author
  1. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servicio de Publicacións, publisher.
LCCN
  1. 2017445511
ISBN
  1. 9788416954247
  2. 8416954240
Research call number
  1. JFE 18-1447
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