Ingredients of a 2,000-y-old medicine revealed by chemical, mineralogical, and botanical investigations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1193-1196

  Giachi, Gianna ^a   Pallecchi, Pasquino ^a   Romualdi, Antonella ^a   Ribechini, Erika ^b   Lucejko, Jeannette Jacqueline ^b   Colombini, Maria Perla ^b   Lippic, Marta Mariotti ^c  

^a Geriatric Department   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROZINCITE; LIPID; NATURAL PRODUCT; RESIN; STARCH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC CARBONATE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; BOTANY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MINERALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIP; TABLET; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84872854315     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216776110     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Ribechini E, Modugno F, Pérez-Arantegui J, Colombini MP (2011) Discovering the composition of ancient cosmetics and remedies: Analytical techniques and materials. Anal Bioanal Chem 401(6):1727-1738.
2. Perez-Arantegui J, Ribechini E, Colombini MP, Escudero F (2011) Characterisation of an ancient 'chemical' preparation: Pigments and drugs in the medieval Islamic Spain. J Archaeol Sci 38(12):3350-3357.
3. Stacey RJ (2011) The composition of some Roman medicines: Evidence for Pliny's Punic wax? Anal Bioanal Chem 401(6):1749-1759.
4. Romualdi A (1990) I materiali. Relitto del Pozzino (B del Golfo di Baratti), Catalogo della mostra. Piombino 14-luglio-31 ottobre 1990, eds Nicosia F, Romualdi A (Edizioni Zeta, Florence, Italy), pp 31-34.
5. Romualdi A, FirmatiM (1998) Memorie sommerse. Archeologia subacquea in Toscana, Catalogo della Mostra, Fortezza spagnola di Porto S. Stefano, 31 maggio 1997, eds Poggesi G, Rendini P (Laurium Editrice, Pitigliano, Italy), pp 184-192. Italian. 6.
6. Ciabatti E (1990) Relitto del Pozzino (B del Golfo di Baratti), Catalogo della Mostra. Piombino 14-Luglio-31 Ottobre 1990, eds Nicosia F, Romualdi A (Edizioni Zeta, Florence, Italy), pp 17-22. Italian.
7. Colombini MP, Modugno F (2009) Organic Mass Spectrometry in Art and Archaeology (Wiley, Chichester, UK).
8. Ribechini E, Orsini S, Silvano F, Colombini MP (2009) Py-GC/MS, GC/MS and FTIR investigations on Late Roman-Egyptian adhesives from opus sectile: New insights into ancient recipes and technologies. Anal Chim Acta 638(1):79-87.
9. Ribechini E, Modugno F, Colombini MP, Evershed RP (2008) Gas chromatographic and mass spectrometric investigations of organic residues from Roman glass unguentaria. J Chromatogr A 1183(1-2):158-169.
10. Henry AG, Hudson HF, Piperno DP (2009) Changes in starch grain morphologies from cooking. J Archaeol Sci 36(3):915-922.
11. Andersen ST (1979) Identification of Wild Grasses and Cereal Pollen (Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse Årbog, Copenhagen), pp 69-92.
12. Beug HJ (1961) Leitfaden der Pollenbestimmung für Mitteleuropa und angrenzende Gebiete [Pollen Guide for Central Europe and Adjacent Areas] (Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart). German.
13. Ciarallo A (2009) Plants as a major element in the cultural framework of Pompeii. Plants and Culture: Seeds of the Cultural Heritage of Europe, eds Morrel J-P, Mercuri AM (Centro Europeo per i Beni Culturali Ravello, Edipuglia, Bari, Italy), pp 63-67.
14. Boni M, Large D (2003) Nonsulfide zinc mineralization in Europe: An overview. Econ Geol 98:715-729.
15. Pliny the Elder, Storia Naturale, trans Barchiesi A (1988) (Giulio Einaudi, Torino, Italy). Book XXXIV, Chap 22, p 233. Italian.
16. Mattioli PA (1645) I discorsi di M Pietro Andrea Matthioli Sanese (Marco Ginammi, Venice, Italy). Book V, Chap 43, pp 732-733. Italian.
17. Gourevitch D (1998) Collyres romains inscrits. Hist Sci Med XXXII(4):365-372.
18. Evershed RP, et al. (2004) Archaeology: Formulation of a Roman cosmetic. Nature 432 (7013):35-36.
19. Pliny the Elder, Storia Naturale, trans Barchiesi A (1988) (Giulio Einaudi, Torino, Italy). Book XII, Chap 60, p 81. Italian.
20. Mattioli PA (1645) I discorsi di M Pietro Andrea Matthioli Sanese (Marco Ginammi, Venice, Italy). Book I, Chap 117, p 145. Italian.
21. Giachi G, De Carolis E, Pallecchi P (2009) Raw materials in Pompeian paintings: Characterisation of some colours from the archaeological site. Mater Manuf Process 24:1015-1022.
22. Colombini MP, Giachi G, Iozzo M, Ribechini E (2009) An Etruscan ointment from Chiusi (Tuscany, Italy): Its chemical characterisation. J Archaeol Sci 36(7):1488-1492.
23. Ribechini E, Pérez-Arantegui J, Colombini MP (2011) Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry for the chemical characterisation of modern and archaeological figs (Ficus carica). J Chromatogr A 1218(25):3915-3922.