![]() In fact it is based on, and quotes liberally from (though without ascription) Matteo Corti's De dosibus (printed in Venice in 1562). 1r-30r) is a didactic treatise addressed to young students on the subject of pharmaceutical dosage. It is written in a single hand, and is in two parts. The manuscript is largely in Latin, with some Italian passages, and can be dated to after 1554 on the basis of an account of how the compiler (or his source) cured a patient of anal fistula anno preterito in 1553. The aim of my talk is to summarize what I have learned to date about this enigmatic volume, in the hope that scholars of Renaissance alchemy, pharmacy, medical practice, the marketing of "secrets", and the interface of print and manuscript culture will be able to exploit its contents. Closer inspection of the text, however, has revealed a more complicated story. In 2022 the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University acquired a 16th century manuscript, described by the dealer from which it was purchased as a pharmacy handbook. of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University), 'Dosage, distillation and deodorants: an enigmatic Italian manuscript of the mid-16th century' She is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and Subject Editor, Medicine for the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. ![]() Updated on-line at the University of Missouri-Kansas City). 12 (2016), and Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, with Patricia Deery Kurtz (CD database of information on more than 8,000 texts (University of Michigan Press, 2000) 2005 edition accessible at National Library of Medicine. 1500): Berkeley Castle Muniments Select Book 89” with Ann Payne (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series, Vol. Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), “Medicine for a Great Household (ca. Jenny Stratford (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2003), “The Declaracions of Richard of Wallingford: A Case Study of a Middle English Astrological Treatise,” in Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English, ed. Her numerous publications and contributions to scholarship include “The Master of the King’s Stillatories,” in The Lancastrian Court: Proceedings of the 13th Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Linda Ehrsam Voigts is Curators' Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. These texts are discussed in this session, from the extant manuscript version of Forestier’s advice to Caius’s printed work. Treatises on efficacious therapy for the disease were written by Thomas Forestier, by the 2nd Duchess of Norfolk, and- most important-by the English physician John Caius (1510-1573). Therapy involving isolation and bed rest came to be understood as efficacious and was utilized in the treatment of prominent patients. The disease did not provide immunity against subsequent outbreaks. The 1502 death of Prince Arthur, regnal heir to Henry VII, was likely from Sudor Anglicus. Mortality from the Sweat was significant, especially among wealthy upper-class young adult males. It was a viral disease, not to be confused with the bacillary plague, Yersinia pestis. Sweating Sickness occurred in England in intermittent epidemics from 1485 well into the sixteenth century. Professor Linda Voigts, “The Sweating Sickness : Mortality and Possibility of Recovery”
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