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Darrera modificació: 2026-04-23
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Bigotti, Fabrizio, "Determining Dosage. The Rationalisation of Galenic Therapy in the Long Renaissance", dins: Bigotti, Fabrizio - Wilkins, John (eds.), Galen's Remedies in the Early Modern Period. Traditions, Theories, Transformations, and Trades (1400-1750), Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine), 2026, pp. 139-165.
- Resum
- As a medical tradition, Galenism lived on through a series of conceptual and technical innovations that allowed a core of ideas to develop into a series of practical applications. This process is perhaps best illustrated by the quantification of therapy, as Galen's principles for the classification and composition of drugs were standardised and developed by subsequent generations of physicians into a veritable ars dosandi, which in turn provided the standard rationale of therapy until the mid-eighteenth century, if not later. In this chapter, I examine a variety of contributions from the period 1300–1550 by authors such as Gentile da Foligno (c. 1290–1348), Tommaso del Garbo (1305–1370), Bartolomeo Montagnana (ca. 1380–1452), Matteo Corti (1475–1542), Benedetto Vittori da Faenza (1481–1562), Pierre de Gorris (early sixteenth century), and Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566), which shed light on how this process took shape. They were collected in a volume entitled De dosibus, seu de iusta quantitate et proportione medicamentorum opuscula, first edited and published in Venice in 1579 by Paolo Meietti (fl. 1569–1598) and reissued a few years later (1584) in Lyon by Jean Marschall (1510–1590). By analysing these works in relation to Galen's original account, I aim to show which specific gaps of his legacy were addressed and what conceptual and practical tools were created in order to quantify therapy.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Farmacologia
Galè
Història de la medicina
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032 ...
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