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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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Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 14 October 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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
Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032925905
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