Ep.30 - Knowing and Selling Exotic Drugs in Paris c.1700
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English - June 10, 2020 20:03 - 42 minutes - 34.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience Health & Fitness Medicine medical history medicine rcpe royal college physicians edinburgh lectures Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Many exotic plant materials would become household words for the well-to-do during the decades around 1700. A language of curiosity, innovation and invention surrounded attempts to understand, trade in and profit from them. This talk considers some of the ways in which lay consumers, merchants and medical experts appropriated and ‘domesticated’ exotic foods and drugs within the French metropolitan world. The aim is to show how consumption, innovation, trade, knowledge and colonialism intersected in medical advertising, and how the city facilitated the emergence of new practices and commodities out of plants that had grown thousands of miles away.
Speaker: Dr Emma Spary (University of Cambridge)
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