Sudden death: medicine and religion in eighteenth-century rome
Auteur :
Donato, Maria Pia
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781472418739
Date de publication :
18 mars 2016
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
589 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.