Saint Anthony's Fire from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century / / Alessandra Foscati.
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. They...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 4 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 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