Sweeping across Renaissance Europe, the Great Pox brought to its victims on the continent a slow, agonizing, and disfiguring death. Based on a wide range of contemporary sources, this book is the first detailed account of the new plague-known to later generations as syphilis-and reactions to it in Italy, France, and Germany, where each society struggled to meet the challenges of the frightening new epidemic.

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe

Henderson, John

Arrizabalaga, Jon

French, Dr. Roger

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Yale University Press

<div>A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than on a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as 'syphilis'.</div>

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance France

History

French, Roger

Europe

One hundred and fifty years after the Black Death killed a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox―commonly known as the French disease―brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement, and ultimately an agonizing death. In this new study, three experts explore the impact of the new plague and society's reaction to its challenge. Using a range of contemporary sources, from the archives of charitable and sanitary institutions that coped with the sick to the medical tracts of those who sought to cure it, they provide the first detailed account of the experience of the disease across Renaissance Italy as well as in France and Germany. The authors analyze the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital for "incurables" established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how it challenged accepted medical theory and practice and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level, they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the diseased poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities, and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as "syphilis."

Galenism, a rational, coherent medical system embracing all health and disease related matters, was the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Deriving from the medical and philosophical views of Galen (129-c.210/6) as well as from his clinical practice, Latin Galenism had its origins in 12th-century Salerno and was constructed from the cultural exchanges between the Arabic and Christian worlds. It flourished all over Europe, following the patterns of expansion of the university system during the subsequent centuries and was a major factor in shaping the healing systems of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities - the subject of a previous volume by Professor GarcÃa-Ballester. The present collection deals with a wide array of issues regarding the historical Galen and late medieval and Renaissance Galenism, but focuses in particular on the relationship between theory and practice. It includes first English versions of two major studies originally published in Spanish.

Galen and Galenism: Theory and Medical Practice from Antiquity to the European Renaissance (Variorum Collected Studies)

García-Ballester, Luis

Cabré, Montserrat

Cifuentes, Lluís

Routledge

¿Sabía quiénes fueron las mujeres pioneras en licenciarse en medicina? ¿O cuáles fueron las enfermedades que se desarrollaron en contextos bélicos? ¿Conoce los orígenes de la Cruz roja y la media luna? El hombre que leía con la lengua, ¿ficción o realidad? Desde tiempos de la Biblia, ¿cuáles han sido las enfermedades con mayor rechazo? ¿Se salvaron vidas con el simple hecho de lavarse las manos? ¿Cuál es el origen del botiquín?&nbsp; ¿Se imaginaba que acontecimientos tan catastróficos como la primera Guerra Mundial propiciaron grandes avances en la cirugía? Adéntrese en la fascinante historia de la medicina con este audiolibro repleto de sorprendentes anécdotas y los pasajes de la historia más determinantes e interesantes sobre epidemias, guerras, medicamentos, grandes hazañas o las fatídicas infecciones.&nbsp; Una obra donde se abordan desde los mayores logros médicos de la humanidad y las enfermedades más cruentas y devastadoras que asolaron ciudades y países, hasta las anécdotas y casos más curiosos que provocaron el mayor de los asombros. «No es fácil ser pionera, pero...¡es fascinante! No cambiaría un instante, ni siquiera el peor, por todo el oro del mundo». Elisabeth Backwell, primera mujer incluida en el registro de médicos de gran Bretaña. Please note: This audiobook is in Castilian Spanish.

Eso no estaba en mi libro de Historia de la Medicina (Narración en Castellano) (Spanish Edition)

Yuste, Carlos

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

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