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Esch, Arnold, "Medicina del tardo Medioevo: testimonianze di pazienti e medici nelle suppliche della Penitenzieria Apostolica", Bullettino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, 119 (2017), 375-404.
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- The petitions for absolution or dispensation, which in the case of violations of canon law had to be addressed to the pope and were dealt with by the Apostolic Penitentiary, contain much interesting material on medicine in the late Middle Ages. For they allow one to view illnesses and their treatment not from the perspective of medicinal treatises, books on medicine or pharmacopoeia etc., but rather from that of the involved, the physicians and the sufferers themselves, who describe how they experienced them. In cases from the whole of Europe, between about 1440 and 1490, one finds descriptions of unsuccessful surgical operations and other medical malpractices (this type of source naturally only registers failures), wrong therapies, the mention of medical expert opinions on the cause of death; first papal permissions for anatomical autopsy; the problem of providing medical care in the countryside, cures using magic, bodily defects; impotence; psychological ailments such as depression, madness and suicide; very personal accounts of the plague. Even assisted dying is mentioned.
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