A history of geology and medicine / edited by C.J. Duffin, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, R.T.J. Moody, Kingston University, London, UK, and C. Gardner-Thorpe, University of Exeter Medical School, UK.

London : The Geological Society, [2013]

vi, 490 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps ; 26 cm.

Geology as medicine and medics as geologists / C.J. Duffin -- Lithotherapeutical research sources from antiquity to the mid-eighteenth century / C.J. Duffin -- Cryptopalaeontology / E. Liñán, M. Liñán and J. Carrasco -- The stomatological use of stones cited in the Kitab al-tasrif treatise (Abulcasis, 1000 CE) / J. Carrasco, and M. Liñán -- The gem electuary / C.J. Duffin -- Medicinal terra sigillata: a historical, geographical and typological review / A. Macgregor -- Materia medica in the seventeenth-century Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo / W.D.I. Rolfe -- History of pharmaceutical use of pumice / C.J. Duffin -- Pharmaceutical use of gold from antiquity to the seventeenth century / R. Console -- Bezoar stones, magic, science and art / M.D.S. Barroso -- Some eighteenth century geological Materia Medica / C.J. Duffin -- Religiosity and magic in some lithoiatric practices of European folk medicine / M. Aliverti -- Britain's spa heritage: a hydrogeological appraisal / J.D. Mather -- Groundwater - medicine by the glassful? / N.S. Robins and P.L. Smedley -- Sunday stone: an enduring metaphor of mining diseases and underground mining conditions / J.H. Pearn and C. Gardner-Thorpe -- The influence of geology in the development of public health / B.P. Bergman -- From flesh to fossils - Nicolaus Steno's anatomy of the Earth / Bek-Thomsen, J. -- Diagnosing fossilization in the Nordic Renaissance: an investigation into the correspondence of Ole Worm (1588-1654) / E. Hoch -- Education forms the tender mind / C. Gardner-Thorpe -- James Parkinson's 'system of successive creations' / C. Lewis -- From obstetrics to oryctology: inside the mind of William Hunter (1718-1783) / J.J. Liston -- John Jeremiah Bigsby, MD: British Army physician and pioneer North American geologist / L.G. Wilson -- Five eighteenth-century medical polymaths / G.C. Hull -- John Whitaker Hulke, surgeon and palaeontologist / S. Wills -- Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle's contribution to the popularity of pterodactyls / D.M. Martill and T. Pointon -- Physicians and their contribution to the early history of earth sciences in Austria / D.C. Angetter, B. Hubmann and J. Seidl -- Medical geologists during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration / H. Guly -- Vomiting stones: mental illness and forensic medicine in 18th century Italy / A. Porro, C. Cristini, B. Falconi, A.F. Franchini and L. Lorusso -- Geology, conservation and dissolution of corpses by Paolo Gorini (1813-1881) / L. Lorusso, B. Falconi, A.F. Franchini and A. Porro.

Includes bibliographical references and index.