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The Fielding H. Garrison Lecture : Medicine and the Renaissance World of Learning
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2004
- pp. 1-36
- 10.1353/bhm.2004.0045
- Article
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This article considers aspects of the relation of medicine with other learned disciplines during the sixteenth century and presents some examples of the contribution of medical authors of that period to such diverse fields as natural philosophy, physiognomy, alchemy, travel writing, the art of memory, and the study of antiquities.