The article examines "Causae et curae" and the "Physica "to show that Hildegard explains disease through the corruption of the
This lecture examines how Renaissance gynaecological authors used Pliny the Elder’s "Natural History" as a source for medical knowledge, cases,
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 examines "Causae et curae" and the "Physica "to show that Hildegard explains disease through the corruption of the
Through the case of Pere d’Olesa and other Spanish physicians, the article shows how geographical mobility enabled medical careers to
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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