The apothecary's chest : magic, art and medication / edited by Konstantina Georganta, Fabienne Collignon and Anne-Marie Millim.

Proceedings of a symposium of the same name held at the University of Glasgow on Nov. 24, 2007. Cf. acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references.

The phrenological dreamer : the popular medical and fictional writing of Robert Macnish (1802-1837) / Megan Coyer -- Animal magic : conjury and power in colonial taxidermy / John Miller -- A wizard/witch's duel : gender power struggles and the occult in surrealism / Rachel Grew -- Old spells, magic herbs and frightening creatures : the curandera in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / João de Mancelos -- The rising gorge : poison, Hamlet and sin / Christa Mahalik -- Prescription narratives : rereading Joseph Cornell's Pharmacy series as a "modernist antidote" / Catriona McAra -- Theatres of memory and restraint : Matthew Barney among the Neo-Platonists / Corin Depper -- The popular use of "precious" stones medicinally in early modern Scotland / Tom Blaen -- Theodora, "the pills" and the saints : female practices toward drug prescrtiption, rearrangements of male therapeutic power / Athena Peglidou -- "I will put none of these diseases upon thee ( -- ) for I am the Lord that healeth thee" : Christ as pharmacist and healer in iconography and literature of late medieval and early modern times / Jacek Kowzan -- Magic, mysticism and medicine : the medical career of John Webster (1611-1682) / Lindsey Fitzharris -- "They go by their dreams" : myth-making and rationality in the initiation of the shaman Quesalid / Harry Whitehead -- From mere bellies to the bad shaman : roles of the contemporary poet / Bill Herbert.

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