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ArticleMedical history2024

Treating with minerals in the Middle Ages: the rare substance

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Fabian Käs

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Article in Medical history, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Petros Bouras-VallianatosDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus, 15771Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1502-6516
Fabian KäsMartin-Buber-Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923Köln, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7258-8750

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 214961/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Premodern medicine used a variety of mineral substances for therapeutic purposes. The present article deals with pitch-asphalt, and, in particular, a precious kind of it called

Indexed as

MineralsByzantiumHistory, MedievalHumansMedicine, ArabicPersiaMineralsByzantine medicineFracturesIslamicate medicineMineralsMūmiyāʾPitch-asphalt

Identifiers

PMID39268756
PMCPMC11655162

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