Duffin, C. J. Men, methods and materials: exploring the historical connections between geology and medicine
Men and methods
Hoch, E. Earth science as a philosophical background to medicine: an essay based on the autobiography of Dr Otto Sperling (1602–81)
Mather, J. D. & Duffin, C. J. Nathaniel Hodges and the purging wells of Shooter’s Hill
Porro, A., Franchini, A. F., Falconi, B., Galimberti, P. M. & Lorusso, L. Water and the city of Milan at the end of the nineteenth century
Pantaloni, M., Console, F., Lorusso, L., Petti, F. M., Franchini, A. F., Porro, A. & Romano, M. Italian physicians’ contribution to geosciences
Liston, J. J. & Alcalá, L. The obstetrician, the surgeon and the premature birth of the world’s first dinosaur: William Hunter and James Parkinson
Sabaté Casellas, F. & Torres Gallardo, B. Pau Estorch Siqués (1805–71) and his ‘magnes venenorum’
Carter, T. & Spurgeon, A. Duncan and Son: changing professional boundaries in the geological and medical sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Buffetaut, E. From giant birds to X-rays: Victor Lemoine (1837–97), physician and palaeontologist
Materials
Retsas, S. Geotherapeutics: the medicinal use of earths, minerals and metals from antiquity to the twenty-first century
Photos-Jones, E., Edwards, C., Häner, F., Lawton, L., Keane, C., Leanord, A. & Perdikatsis, V. Archaeological medicinal earths as antibacterial agents: the case of the Basel Lemnian sphragides
Carrasco, J. & Duffin, C. J. Alectorius: a parasympathomimetic stone?
Pymm, R. ‘Serpent stones’: myth and medical application
Pymm, R. ‘A charm to impose on the vulgar’: the medicinal and magical applications of the snakestone bead within the British Isles
Podgorny, I. The name is the message: eagle-stones and materia medica in South America
Duffin, C. J. ‘Fish’, fossil and fake: medicinal unicorn horn
Blaen, T. ‘Not used to be worn as a Jewel’: The wearing of precious stones in early modern England – ornaments or medicine?
Barroso, M. do S. Coral in Petrus Hispanus’ ‘Treasury of the Poor’
Bergman, B. P. Lead, isotopes and ice: a deadly legacy revealed
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