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      • Yale University
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      • Linda Karshan
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      • Upcoming
        • Galen on the Question of Metabolism
        • Medical Practitioners in Early Modern England
        • Twins and Nobility in the Middle Ages
        • Mercantile Cultures of Health
      • Previous
    • Conferences and Webinars
      • Medical Education in Europe (1350-1750)
      • Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine 2025
      • Past Conferences
    • Santorio Lectures
      • The Shaping of Psychosomatics in the Latin West
      • Knowledge, Experiment, and Practical Advice
    • VivaMente Conferences
      • 2024 – Narratio in Medicine and the Law
      • 2023 – Fertility, Medicine and the Body
      • 2022 – From Automata to Transhumans
      • 2020 – Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes
    • Summer Schools
      • 2025 – Cutting and Curing
      • 2023 – Intensity and the Grades of Nature
      • 2021 – Latitudes of the Body
      • 2019 – The Kiln, The Alembic, and the Clockwork
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Forma Fluens

Insensible Perspiration

Santorio’s "De statica medicina" (1614) reflected long-standing views on perspiration closely aligned to digestion, and health as balance of humours

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