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Sharhzad Irannejed examines medieval Islamicate diagrams of the brain and its ventricles as variable scribal artefacts, arguing that their visual
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Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab is a new format for the Winter School, designed to meet the needs of those who,
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
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