Like Places, Like Peoples
In this article, Gabriele Torcoletti reconstructs the intellectual architecture of Hippocrates' "Airs, Waters, Places", showing how analogy and polarity shaped
The Body of Evidence in Early Modern Germany
Through an examination of Katharina Kepler's witchcraft trial, Marco Ghione shows how ambiguous bodily symptoms were transformed into legal evidence
Infertility Concerns in the Early Twelfth Century
Is infertility really a modern concern? Anna Gili explores how medieval physicians understood infertility and its treatment, tracing the transmission
Sexual Transformation and Galenism
Set against the world of cheap print and wonder literature, this article investigates the case of a Spanish nun who
Healing Like a Medieval Woman
The article examines "Causae et curae" and the "Physica "to show that Hildegard explains disease through the corruption of the
Mobility in European Medicine
Through the case of Pere d’Olesa and other Spanish physicians, the article shows how geographical mobility enabled medical careers to
Naming Cancer (13th-14th Centuries)
The article follows cancer and lupus as unstable names in medieval medicine, constantly displaced by what physicians did, what texts
From the Laboratory to the Bedside
Franciscus Sylvius and his pupil Reinier de Graaf transformed iatrochemistry from a speculative medical theory into a clinically grounded and
Medieval Uroscopy and the Brain
Medieval physicians interpreted the brain through uroscopy, tracing a diagnostic reasoning that linked urine, humoral imbalance, and cerebral function. This
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