DIAGRAMS OF THE VENTRICLES OF THE BRAIN IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMICATE TRADITION - S. Irannejad (Bochum)
RENAISSANCE DEBATES ON OCCULT QUALITIES - H. Hirai (University of Tokyo)
THE TRANSFORMATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE HISTORIES - M. Green (Independent)
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This lecture reassesses Michael Servetus’s account of pulmonary blood transit within its sixteenth-century theological and medical context, arguing that later
In this lecture, Henrique Leitão shows how sixteenth-century 'Problemata literature' remained a flexible explanatory genre that allowed causal investigation without
The article follows cancer and lupus as unstable names in medieval medicine, constantly displaced by what physicians did, what texts
Franciscus Sylvius and his pupil Reinier de Graaf transformed iatrochemistry from a speculative medical theory into a clinically grounded and
Medieval physicians interpreted the brain through uroscopy, tracing a diagnostic reasoning that linked urine, humoral imbalance, and cerebral function. This
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The article follows cancer and lupus as unstable names in medieval medicine, constantly displaced by what physicians did, what texts
Franciscus Sylvius and his pupil Reinier de Graaf transformed iatrochemistry from a speculative medical theory into a clinically grounded and
Medieval physicians interpreted the brain through uroscopy, tracing a diagnostic reasoning that linked urine, humoral imbalance, and cerebral function. This
“Dell’Elettricismo” (1746) was the first Italian treatise to systematically connect electricity with physiology and medical practice. By analysing its experiments
How were miners affected by their work? This article traces the illnesses they faced, the vocabulary they created to describe
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