scholarly journals "The Body is as an Instrument to the Soul": Christian Asceticism in Early Modern Medicine, 1550-1800

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Sara Tretter
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
The Body ◽  
Early Modern Medicine

scholarly journals ‘Magic coins’ and ‘magic squares’: the discovery of astrological sigils in the Oldenburg Letters

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Marie Roos
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
The Body ◽  
Perceived Efficacy ◽  
Magic Squares ◽  
Early Modern Medicine

Enclosed in a 1673 letter to Henry Oldenburg were two drawings of a series of astrological sigils, coins and amulets from the collection of Strasbourg mathematician Julius Reichelt (1637–1719). As portrayals of particular medieval and early modern sigils are relatively rare, this paper will analyse the role of these medals in medieval and early modern medicine, the logic behind their perceived efficacy, and their significance in early modern astrological and cabalistic practice. I shall also demonstrate their change in status in the late seventeenth century from potent magical healing amulets tied to the mysteries of the heavens to objects kept in a cabinet for curiosos. The evolving perception of the purpose of sigils mirrored changing early modern beliefs in the occult influences of the heavens upon the body and the natural world, as well as the growing interests among virtuosi in collecting, numismatics and antiquities.

Emotions and the Body in Early Modern Medicine

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Stolberg
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
The Body ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Early Modern Medicine ◽  
External Objects ◽  
Lay Experience

Drawing on Latin treatises, letters, and autobiographical writings, this article outlines the changes in the—thoroughly somatic—learned medical understanding of the emotions (or “affectus/passiones animi”) between 1500 and 1800 and their impact on lay experience. The mixture of the four natural humors explained individuals’ different propensity to certain emotions. The emotions as such, however, were described primarily as movements of the spirits and the blood towards or away from external objects. The term “e(s)motion” emerged. The final part highlights the 18th-century shift from spirits and blood to the nerves as the principal site of the emotions. Physicians and laypersons alike now associated the emotions closely with the peculiar nervous sensibility and irritability of individuals and groups.

Jeu de la paume: Health of the Body and the Mind in Early Modern Medicine

Nuncius ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Concetta Pennuto
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
The Body ◽  
Early Modern Medicine ◽  
Dual Status ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Impact

This article deals with the role that gymnastics and particularly the game of handball (pila palmaria) played in early modern medicine. The game was seen as useful in order to foster good health, both of the body and the mind. Following the tradition of ancient medical sources, early modern philosophers, physicians, ball players and authors – such as Erasmus, Mercuriale, Scaino, Valleriola, Forbet and Hulpeau – elaborated a rich repertory of ideas demonstrating the impact of ball games on the education of young people, on the therapy for various diseases, and on the prevention of illness. Pila palmaria thus enjoyed a dual status, since it could act on the body through physical exercise and on the mind thanks to the pleasure produced in the player’s spirit.

Vesalius annotations and the rise of early modern medicine

The Lancet ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 393 (10173) ◽  
pp. 738-739
Author(s):  
Dániel Margócsy ◽  
Mark Somos ◽  
Stephen N Joffe
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Early Modern Medicine

Introduction: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphna Oren-Magidor ◽  
Catherine Rider
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Early Modern Medicine

scholarly journals Early Modern Medicine in Manuscript and Print

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-93
Author(s):  
Jukka Tyrkkö
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Quantitative Comparison ◽  
The Other ◽  
Linear Fashion ◽  
Early Modern Medicine ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
English Spelling ◽  
Printed Sources

The standardisation process of English spelling largely came to its conclusion during the Early Modern period. While the progress of standardisation has been studied in both printed and manuscript texts, few studies have looked at these processes side by side, especially focusing on the same genre of writing and by using corpora that are sufficiently large for quantitative comparison. Using two Early Modern medical corpora, one based on manuscripts and the other on printed sources, this paper compares the trajectories of spelling standardisation in the two textual domains and shows that while spelling standardisation progressed in an almost linear fashion in printed texts, the manuscripts reveal a much more varied and shallow cline toward standardisation.

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