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Zuccolin, Gabriella, "Ruolo ed evoluzione della balneoterapia nel pensiero scientifico-medico in Italia dal XII al XVI secolo", dins: Ciardi, Marco - Cataldi, Raffaele (eds.), Il calore de la Terra: contributo alla storia della geotermia in Italia, Pisa, ETS, 2005, pp. 98-115.
- Resum
- The rebirth of the custom of frequenting thermal baths from the XII century until the end of the Middle Ages, is parallel in Italy to the development of a new medicalli terature entirely consecrated to the study of the therapeutic virtues and minerai components of spa waters. By analysing the treatises on thermal springs contained in De balneis omnia quae extant (1533), it is possible to evaluate the role and evolution of balneotherapy in sciemific-medical thought and in the materia culture of the Middle Ages in Italy. The particular, coincidental and "wonderful" character of phenomena such as thermal springs was hard to reconcile with the rigorous Aristotelian idea of a science of nature governed by certain causes. Por this reason, the practising physicians who authored treatises on balneotherapy underline the key role of experience as a criterion of in vestigation far studying the properties of waters, and define experimental procedures with which to attempt to trace back the specific composirion of each type of water. Physicians like Ugolino da Montecatini and Michele Savonarola found social and politica legitimation of their works on baths especially in the interest of court environments, assuring themselves the contro of "new" an dpromising therapeutic contexts and inaugurating forms of alli ance with city authorities that heralded the birth of a concept of public health.
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- Banys
Història de la medicina
Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
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- https://www.academia.edu/36705509/G.Zuccolin_2005_R ...
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