Girolamo Mercuriale (Forli 1530-1606) was a celebrity in his day, not only in the medical field, but in any other branch of humanist learning. He exerted his widespread contacts outside medicine with ...
Public anatomies have been characterized as carnivalesque events: like the Carnival, they took place in January and February and celebrated bodily existence. However, in late sixteenth-century Padua a...
In 1840 the Dresden physician and professor at the Chirurgisch-medicinischen Akademie Johann Ludwig Choulant (1791-1861)--at that time one of the most well-known experts in history of medicine--receiv...
The article examines an unpublished work by Girolamo Brasavola, a physician from ferrara who lived and worked in Rome in the second half of the 17th century. This is the chapter De fermentatione of th...
The life, activity and specimens of Girolamo Segato (Sospirolo 1792--Firenze 1836), as well as the mystery still surrounding his petrifaction method are outlined in this paper with the aim of shedding...