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Useful regime against the plague (ca. 1496): an introduction

This introductory text analyzes Regimento proveitoso contra a pestilência, written in Portugal around 1496. The work is situated within the context of the era's main theories and of medieval medical thought, based on the Arab tradition.

Regimento proveitoso contra a pestilência; Regimen contra pestilentiam; history of medicine; Middle Ages; medieval Portugal


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