Coping with the french disease: University practitioners’ strategies and tactics in the transition from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century

Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 248-287

  French, Roger ^a   Arrizabalaga, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429202995-11     Document Type: Chapter

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