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Darrera modificació: 2026-04-28
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Vos, Paula de, "The Columbian Exchange and Galenic Pharmacology: Galenic Materia Medica in the Viceroyalty of New Spain", dins: Bigotti, Fabrizio - Wilkins, John (eds.), Galen's Remedies in the Early Modern Period. Traditions, Theories, Transformations, and Trades (1400-1750), Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine), 2026, pp. 305-330.
- Resum
- This chapter examines the transplantation of Old World crops, including those classified as Galenic simples, to the Americas, with a focus on the Viceroyalty of New Spain, an area encompassing present-day Mexico, Central America, and the southwestern United States. While scholarship on the Columbian Exchange has largely addressed the incorporation of American medicinal plants into Galenic materia medica, this study shifts the perspective to crops introduced from Europe that served both nutritional and medicinal purposes. By analyzing primary sources on agricultural transplantation, this chapter highlights the overlap between food and medicine in early modern New Spain. Many of these introduced cultivars were not only cultivated in Novohispanic gardens but also appeared in urban apothecary inventories and pharmaceutical texts spanning from Galen's era to the nineteenth century. These findings underscore the continued significance of Galenic pharmacy in colonial medical practice. The documentation of these medicinal applications is further supported by an accompanying table that catalogues relevant crops, their uses, and their presence in pharmaceutical record.
- Matèries
- Galè
Història de la medicina
Medicina - Farmacologia
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032 ...
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