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Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

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Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032925906
ISBN13: 9781032925905
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 14 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In 1705-1706, an 'epidemic' of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XI's physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, was ordered to perform a series of dissections to discover the cause of the epidemic, which hindered confession, thus threatening the victim's salvation. The book that Lancisi subsequently published, De subitaneis mortibus ('On Sud

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