Infectious Disease Histories
In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution
Medical Electricity Arrives in Italy
“Dell’Elettricismo” (1746) was the first Italian treatise to systematically connect electricity with physiology and medical practice. By analysing its experiments
Health and Illness in Mining Communities
How were miners affected by their work? This article traces the illnesses they faced, the vocabulary they created to describe
Natural History on the Island of Ambon
The talk explores how George Eberhard Rumphius’s natural history and medicinal botany in the Dutch colonial archipelago were shaped by
The Diagnosis of Changing Diseases
The lecture examines how Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro redefined early modern diagnosis by theorising the transformation and propagation of diseases
Howling Dogs
Paul Sandro Heidelbach explores a 1688 satire that linked Kenelm Digby’s "sympathetic powder" to a supposed method for finding longitude
Medical Alchemy and the Antichrist
This talk focuses on Rupescissa's pharmacological work, "De famulatu philosophie" (1351-1352) and repositions his thought in the context of his
Reshaping Vesalius’ Legacy
In this article Sabrina Engert examines how Andreas Vesalius’s "De humani corporis fabrica" and "Epitome" were re-edited, adapted, and transformed
The Science of Compound Medicaments
This lecture explores al-Majūsī’s "Kitāb al-Malakī" and its Latin translation, showing how Book X on compound medicaments was reshaped into
The Body and the Stars
This talk investigates early modern astro-medicine through the manuscripts of the Vitali Archive in Parma. It focuses on Buonafede Vitali