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RETHINKING THE HISTORY OF LEPROSY IN THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN - A. Gili (Padua)GALEN'S REMEDIES BEYOND THE RENAISSANCE - F. Bigotti (CSMBR) and J. Wilkins (Exeter)STAYING FRESH IN EARLY BYZANTIUM - M. Kokoszko and Z. Rzeźnicka (University of Łódź)THE COLOUR OF DREAMS. The Physiology of Oneiric Experience - M. Signori (IMT Lucca)YIDDISH MEDICINE IN TIMES OF EPIDEMICS - D. Zaidman-Mauer (University of Amsterdam)ORBS OF BLOOD IN 14TH-CENTURY PERSIA - B. Kavoussi (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)1 / 26
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Drawing on city council records, Monica O'Brien examines how ideas about sexual and non-sexual contagion shaped medical responses and aid
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Through an examination of Katharina Kepler's witchcraft trial, Marco Ghione shows how ambiguous bodily symptoms were transformed into legal evidence
Is infertility really a modern concern? Anna Gili explores how medieval physicians understood infertility and its treatment, tracing the transmission
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In this article, Gabriele Torcoletti reconstructs the intellectual architecture of Hippocrates' "Airs, Waters, Places", showing how analogy and polarity shaped
Through an examination of Katharina Kepler's witchcraft trial, Marco Ghione shows how ambiguous bodily symptoms were transformed into legal evidence
Is infertility really a modern concern? Anna Gili explores how medieval physicians understood infertility and its treatment, tracing the transmission
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