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Document Details : Title: New Manuscript Sources on Medical Knowledge and Practice in Early Modern Gotha Author(s): STORNI, Marco Journal: Lias Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Date: 2022 Pages: 177-195 DOI: 10.2143/LIAS.49.2.3292260 Abstract : Johann Gerhard’s Nachlass, preserved in the Gotha Research Library, contains heterogeneous materials dealing with medicine, which can be dated between the late sixteenth and the early seventeenth century. These manuscripts, regrouped under signature marks Chart. A 628, Chart. B 492, and Chart. A 640, represent a unique testimony to the knowledge and practice of medicine in early modern Gotha, a topic on which little has been written so far. Their analysis, as proposed in this essay, is thus meant to integrate the extant literature on medicine in early modern Germany with a microhistorical analysis of a new case study. Moreover, my research is also meant to broaden the available knowledge of the emergence of an experimental culture in early modern Gotha, so far limited to the history of alchemy, by examining documents on medicine and apothecary practice. |
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