Cutting and Curing. Anatomy and Surgery in Early Modern Europe (1500-1700)
This summer school will offer an overview of the current state of the art in the fields of early modern
Cosmological Resonances of Bodily Fluids
The article explores the life and works of the Portuguese physician Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro, and especially his 'De meteoris
Kenelm Digby’s Chymical Aristotle
I focus here on an English natural philosopher, Kenelm Digby, and his atomic interpretation of Aristotle. My aim is to
Insensible Perspiration
Santorio’s "De statica medicina" (1614) reflected long-standing views on perspiration closely aligned to digestion, and health as balance of humours