Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine
This series explores women's contributions to various medically relevant fields and practices such as natural philosophy, household remedies, plant manipulation
This series explores women's contributions to various medically relevant fields and practices such as natural philosophy, household remedies, plant manipulation
This lecture explores a variety of little know sources on the Neapolitian plague of 1656, offering new documents and perspectives
This talk examines several late sixteenth-century anatomical works that adopted either the terms and or methods of analysis and synthesis.
In this lecture, I will discuss the "confit d’en cases" or "confectio infantium", a remedy for breastfed infants with colic,
This lecture explores how the various solutions offered to the problem of reaction became closer and closer to the modern
In this lecture Ian Maclean explores Girolamo Cardano's late philosophy, examining his diverse works in mathematics, astrology, and medicine, and
This paper explores al-Farghānī’s "Elements of Astronomy", a pioneering work in theoretical astronomy which widely adopts Galenic language and theories.
This lecture will analyse the various types of causation that were involved in the therapeutic use of antidotes
This lecture explores the role attributed by Albert the Great to the "virtus formativa", a plastic force that in medieval
This lecture provides an overview of the medical practices offered to the citizens of Byzantium, the role of hospitals and