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Saint Anthony's fire from antiquity to the eighteenth century
"After the discovery of the ergotism epidemics (poisoning caused by ingesting the fungal toxin of rye) and its etiology, eighteenth-century physicians interpreted medieval chronicles in their medical texts in order to recognize the occurrences of ergotic diseases through retrospective diagnosis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Premodern health, disease and disability ;
2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Preface / Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: The Burning Disease : Different Names for the Same Disease or Different Diseases with the Same Name?
- Part II: St Anthony the Abbot, Thaumaturge of the Burning Disease, and the Order of the Hospital Brothers of St Anthony
- Part III: The Discovery of Ergotism (Saint Anthony's Fire?)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index