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| Autore principale: | Gambaccini, Piero.
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| Titolo: | Mountebanks and medicasters : a history of Italian charlatans from the Middle Ages to the present / Piero Gambaccini ; translated by Bettie Gage Lippitt ; foreword by Giorgio Cosmacini. |
| Pubblicazione: | Jefferson : McFarland, 2004. |
| Descrizione fisica: | VIII, 247 p. : ill., ritr. ; 23 cm |
| Note: | Tit. orig.: I mercanti della salute : le segrete virtù dell'imbroglio in medicina |
| Contiene: | Indice: Acknowledgments. Foreword / by Giorgio Cosmacini. Preface. Introduction: The toad and the small bird. 1. People who go about swindling, with little exertion and for their own gain 2. Grand entertainments 3. Wise is the peasant... who goes not seeking a doctor's cure... 4. Scoundrels, quacks and murderes... 5. Charlatans against learned physicians 6. Glorious Fioravanti, maker of miracles... 7. The feverish search for a remedy 8. They make robbery seem a courtesy: Italian charlatans abroad 9. The Alfier Lombardo, the unknown knight and a charlatan doctor 10. A carnival of publicity 11. Physical recreations 12. Mesmerists, hypnotists and wondrous somnambulists 13. Yearned-for, eternal youth 14. It is said that medicine is of two parts: one is called a physician's science, the other is called art. Glossary of herbs and medical ingredients. Sources notes. Index |
| ISBN: | 0786416068 |
| Altri autori: | Cosmacini, Giorgio, 1931-
Gage, Bettie Lippitt. |
| Discipline: | Medicina--Medici (professione). |
| Luoghi: | Italia. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Rinascimento. Secolo XVII. Secolo XVIII. |
| Collocazione: | LS 14160 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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