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Honey in Coptic Medicine
Drawing on Coptic medical writings and related historical sources, this article examines honey’s evolving roles in treatment and ritual from
Welfare Reform and Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the Dawn of Modernity
By the end of the Middle Ages hospitals began to manifest the symptoms of an institutional crisis. This situation will
Surgical Thread in Early Modern Europe
Silk thread or metallic wire? This article focuses on the figure of Johann Rhode (1587-1659), a Danish philologist and physician