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Enflures et boursouflures. L'obésité au Moyen Âge (2012)

Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 20
Pages: 223--238

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Estremità e escrescenze dei corpi / Extremities and Excrescences of the Body”
Language: French

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Weight management Physicians; doctors Nutrition; dietetics Conception (pregnancy) Obesity Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment 12th century Medieval 15th century

Obesity is known by the doctors since the XIIth century and since then particular treatments have been presented such as: bathing, specific food diets with specific consumption quantity, physical exercises prescribed after medical examinatiobn. Yet, an ancient moralizing discourse, revived in the XVth century, stressed the need of care. Obesity, for instance, war represented as dangerous for pregnant women themselves as well as for their babies. Obesity was also seen as a factor that could cause intellectual or spiritual incapacity.

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