VARIABLE MATTERSMateria Medica in the Eighteenth-Century World

International Conference 20th – 22nd September 2019

Totengässlein 3, CH-4051 BaselTelefon +41 (0)61 207 48 11www.pharmaziemuseum.ch

Finding us by public transport or on footFrom the Marktplatz (market square) (tram lines 6, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17) via the Totengässlein towards the Peterskirche (church). The entrance is a 100m walk away, in the courtyard of the museum.

By carThe closest carparks are the «Storchen-parking» and the «Parkhaus City/Universitäts spital».

In cooperation with University of Heidelberg, financed by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF), Departement Pharmazie der Universität Basel, Pharmaziemuseum Basel.

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Program

Friday, September 20th, 14:00 –15:00 WELCOME, OPENING

Stefanie Gänger (Heidelberg), Barbara Orland (Basel) Materia Medica and the World of the Eighteenth Century: An Introduction

Friday, September 20th, 15.30 –17:30 THE MINERAL KINGDOM

Franceso Luzzini (Berlin) Naturae Consilio. Earthly Substances, Medicine and Therapeutics in Vallisneri‘s research

Matthew J. Eddy (Durham) The Matter of Madness: Power, Electrotherapy and the Female Constitution

Friday, September 20th, 18:15 –19:00KEYNOTE LECTURE (Kollegiengebäude, Petersplatz 1, Room 120)

Emma Spary (Cambridge) The Virtues of Vanilla: Journeys of Drugs in the First French Empire (c. 1700)

Saturday, September 21st, 10:00 –12:00THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM I

Laurence Totelin (Cardiff) How the Mighty Fall: Heberden’s Antitheriaka and the Demise of Antidotes

Clare Griffin (Astana/Kasachstan) Russian Drugs, Western Materials: Writing Recipes for American Plants in Latin and Russian in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia

Saturday, September 21st, 12:00 –14:30GUIDED TOUR OF THE MUSEUM (LUNCH)Philippe Wanner (Pharmacy Museum)

Saturday, September 21st, 14:30 – 17:30THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM II

Hjalmar Fors (Stockholm) Understanding Exotic Medicinal Plants: Botany vs Chemistry

Marieke Hendriksen (Amsterdam) Tasting Tea in the Eighteenth Century: Between Pharmacy and Fashion

Sabrina Minuzzi (Venedig) Brokers of Materia Medica between European Localia and Global Exotica: Johannes Behm naturalised Venetian (1640 ca.–1731)

Saturday, September 21st, 17:30 – 19:00DINNER/BUFFET19:00CONCERT | CHEMISTRY: LAB MUSIC, PERFORMANCE, SOUND EXPLOSIONS

Sunday, September 22nd, 09:00 –13:30The ANIMAL KINGDOM

Chris Duffin (London) Animal Simples in Surviving 18th Century Materia Medica Cabinets

Irina Podgorny (La Plata/Argentinien) Eaglestones: Neither Fish nor Fowl

Simona Boscani Leoni (Bern), Silvia Flubacher (Aargau) Hunting Bezoar Stones in the Swiss Alps. A Natural History of Chamois and their Medical Uses in 17th and 18th Century

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