Vol. 16 (2015)

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Published: 2015-12-11

Original Articles

The Human and the Animal: Explanatory Commensurability in Darwin’s The Descent of Man

Teófilo Espada-Brignoni

1-16
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Measuring the Invisible: A Process among Arithmetic, Geometry and Music

Fumikazu Saito, Carla Bromberg

17-37
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Dossier: Materia medica and pharmacy: from the medicinal virtues to the active principles of plants

Dossier: Materia medica and pharmacy. From medicinal virtues to the active principles of plants

Márcia H.M. Ferraz, Patricia Aceves Pastrana, Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb

38-40
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The development of chemistry at the National Medical Institute, 1888-1915

Liliana Schifter, Patricia Aceves Pastrana

41-56
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Luso-Brazilian antiscorbutic herbs

Vera Cecília Machline

57-82
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Chemistry and the definition and isolation of ‘active principles’ of plants in the late 18th and early-19th centuries

Márcia H.M. Ferraz, Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb

83-92
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Opium before morphine: the elusive quest for the active principle of drugs

Silvia Waisse, Conrado Mariano Tarcitano Filho

93-102
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Healing plants in the spiritual landscape of the Shanhai jing (Itineraries of mountains and seas, comp. 1st c. BC)

Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann

103-122
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Research on psychoactive plants at Mexico’s National Medical Institute, 1888-1915

Angélica Morales Sarabia, Mariana Ortiz Reynoso

123-137
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Pharmacy, quina and quinine in Portugal, 18th-20th centuries

Célia Cabral, Ana-Leonor Pereira, João Rui Pita

138-153
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