Verba Volant Scripta Manent: the importance of correspondence in early modern medical diagnosis

• Autores: Annarita Franza
• Localización: The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 / coord. por Antoni M. Roca Rosell, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8, págs. 925-927
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of my talk is to underline the importance of correspondence between physicians in Early Modern medical diagnosis. The paper studied the correspondence between Romolo Spezioli, personal physician of Queen Christina in Rome and the famous Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi. The research examines the serial of letters that is kept in Archiginnasio Library and in University Library in Bologna. The collection of letters, unpublished and unstudied, offers a unique example of medical correspondence full of details about the description of diseases and therapy in the 17th century and it represents an important source of reconstruction of the epistemological approach to catarrhal diseases in Early Modern medicine.