Dr. Nicholas Charles Everett
History Department and Centre for Medieval Studies.
Evolution Oral?Surgery LLC
Greece
Biography
Prof. Nicholas Everett is a historian of natural product medicine who specializes in pre-modern pharmacy and drug recipes. Prof. Everett's research, which he terms "historical pharmacology", applies insights from modern pharmacological disciplines such as pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and phytochemistry to understand pharmaceutical practices in the past and historical traditions of pharmacy. He is the author of The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (UTP 2012) and (with M. Gabra) “The pharmacology of medieval sedatives: The Great Rest of the Antidotarium Nicolai, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 155 (2014): 443-449. Further research into pre-modern sedatives is currently complemented by investigating historical traditions of natural product pharmacy for topical applications and gastrointestinal conditions.
Research Interest
Natural product pharmacy, history of pharmacy, sedatives, opium, mandrake, henbane, scopolamine, hyoscyamine, morphine, codeine, phytochemistry, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, ingestion, ginger, licorice, galangal, zedoary, transdermal delivery
