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Podgorny, Irina
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Duffin, Christoffer
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Gardner-Thorpe, C.
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Moody, R. T. J.
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2021-07-30T16:18:29Z
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2017
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Podgorny, Irina; The name is the message: eagle-stones and materia medica in South America; Geological Society of London; 452; 2017; 195-210
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9781786202833
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http://hdl.handle.net/11336/137469
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This chapter presents one case history – the transfer of the name and virtues of ‘eaglestones’ to Andean minerals and terebratulid brachiopods such as Clarkeia antisiensis. Eaglestones, an ancient remedy of Asian origin, were used in early modern Europe to prevent abortion and as a charm to assist obstetric delivery. In the eighteenth century eagle-stones were the subject of what G. Baronti (Tra bambini e acque sporche Immersioni nella collezione di amuleti di Giuseppe Bellucci, Morlacchi, Perugia, 2008) calls the process of folklorization of European learned medicine, becoming a ‘superstition’ and a popular remedy of medical lore. Based on secondary bibliography and documents from the Archivo de Indias in Seville, the paper discusses the uses of eagle-stones in Spain and Spanish America in connection to the texts published, written or translated in the Iberian Peninsula (lapidaries, early modern medical books). The last section proposes clues to analyse the expansion of the trade in eagle-stones to Spanish America, to finally survey the references to ‘eagle-stones’ in Latin American popular medicine of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Eagle-stones are inscribed not only in the longue-dure´e but also in the intricate networks of commerce.
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application/pdf
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eng
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Geological Society of London
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
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HISTORY OF MEDICINE
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MATERIA MEDICA
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MINERALS
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EAGLE-STONES
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Otras Historia y Arqueología
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Historia y Arqueología
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HUMANIDADES
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The name is the message: eagle-stones and materia medica in South America
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
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info:ar-repo/semantics/parte de libro
dc.date.updated
2021-04-12T16:55:54Z
dc.journal.volume
452
dc.journal.pagination
195-210
dc.journal.pais
Reino Unido
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Londres
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Fil: Podgorny, Irina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Archivo Histórico; Argentina
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/452/1/195
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP452.14
dc.conicet.paginas
300
dc.source.titulo
Geology and Medicine: Historical Connections
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