Ruben Verwaal

Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School

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Jonathan Barry and            Fabrizio Bigotti

Santorio Santori and the Emergence of Quantified Medicine (1614-1790)

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Justin Begeley and            Benjamin Goldberg

The Medical World of Margareth Cavendish

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This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century and reveals how physicians moved from a humoral theory of medicine to new chemical and mechanical models for understanding the body in the early modern period.

This book examines for the first time in English the life and works of Santorio Santori and his impact on the history of medicine and natural philosophy. Reputed as the father of experimental medicine, Santorio is also known for the invention of numerous scientific devices, as well as clinical and surgical tools.

This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but overlooked manuscript compilation of medical recipes and letters by some of the most influential physicians and scholars of the early seventeenth century.

Meagan S. Allen

Roger Bacon and the Incorruptible Human (1220-1292)

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This book examines Roger Bacon’s alchemical theories and explains how he believed that alchemy, in conjunction with humoral medicine, could illuminate the method of prolonging life to extreme lengths.