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  • SECRETS AND KNOWLEDGE IN MEDICINE AND SCIENCE, 1500–1800
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    SECRETS AND KNOWLEDGE IN MEDICINE AND SCIENCE, 1500–1800
    ALISHA RANKIN
    Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and alchemical procedures, new kn...

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  • THE POISON TRIALS
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    THE POISON TRIALS
    ALISHA RANKIN
    In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen other accounts of poison trials were committed to writing. Alisha Rankin tells ...

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  • PANACEIA'S DAUGHTERS
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    PANACEIA'S DAUGHTERS
    ALISHA RANKIN
    Panaceia’s Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen’s healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on it...

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