Why do medicines work? This lecture revisits fourteenth-century Italy, where physicians such as Taddeo Alderotti and Dino del Garbo sought

Through the case of Pere d’Olesa and other Spanish physicians, the article shows how geographical mobility enabled medical careers to

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