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Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic Medicine: From Astral Causation to Pharmacology and Treatment (2021)

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Pestilential diseases formed a category of epidemic and often fatal diseases, whose outbreak, causes and treatment were challenging to explain inthe Renaissance. In exploring this theme in sixteenth–century Galenic medicine, I examine the Platonic account of “occult” diseases and treatment that was proposed by the French physician Jean Fernel (1497–1558). While Fernel developed a philosophical explanation of pestilential diseases in "On the Hidden Causes of Things" (1548), he also suggested a therapeutic application in his "Pathologia" (1567), "Therapeutices" (1567) and posthumous "Consilia" (1582). By considering Fernel’s synthesis of ancient, medieval and Renaissance medical approaches to plague and pestilence, this chapter traces his views on astral causation, poisonous seeds and the innate heat in relation to pathology, pharmacology and therapy.

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Authors & Contributors
Varlik, Nükhet
Ingaliso, Luigi
Barry, Stéphane
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
MacKay, Ruth
Agostini, Anna
Concepts
Medicine
Plague
Disease and diseases
Epidemics
Public health
Medicine and society
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
15th century
Medieval
18th century
Places
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Sicily
Spain
Italy
France
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