Article ID: CBB001320173

The Role of Plauto in Richard Blackmore's Conceptions about the Spleen (2013)

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The aim of the present article is to make clear the role of the Latin writer of comedies Plautus in the conceptions about the spleen upheld by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century man of letters and physician Richard Blackmore in his An Essay upon the Spleen. To better appraise the comedist's relevance among other Classical thinkers, first some of the various functions formerly attributed to this organ will be reviewed. Next, after briefly considering the impact on the ideas about the spleen occasioned by the discovery of the circulation of the blood, the aim of this article shall be contemplated.

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Authors & Contributors
Baldin, Maurizio
Carmody, John
Weisser, Olivia
Totaro, Rebecca Carol Noel
Sugg, Richard
Schwartz, Louis
Concepts
Medicine
Human body
Medicine and literature
Human anatomy
Medicine and gender
Childbirth
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Early modern
19th century
Renaissance
Places
England
Germany
Rome (Italy)
United States
Greece
France
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