Anna Gili

Histoires des handicaps Histoires des handicaps à travers les siècles. Identifications, trajectoires, institutions et sociabilités    N inon  Dubourg,  Gildas  Brég...

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With a short essay on the importance of the "neutrum" for the history of disability!

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Just an idea!

What Would Constantine Do? A Post on Science and Migration in Honor of World Leprosy Day 2026 “Recently, Mycobacterium lepromatosis, a new unculturable mycobacterial species associated with diffuse lepromatous leprosy, also known as Lucio’s leprosy or Latapi’s leprosy, was described by Han …

And here it is, my post for #WorldLeprosyDay2026. Two days late, but hopefully it captures important themes of concern to #GlobalHealth & medical science now: constantinusafricanus.com/2026/01/27/w... #histmed #MedievalSky #aDNA

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Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases. However, due to a lack of critical editions of medical works, leprosy is poorly und...

When it rains, it pours! More medieval disease history today. @gi-anna97.bsky.social has just brought out her FIRST BOOK! Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature: The Kitāb al-Malakī and Related Texts. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... De Gruyter/Brill are having a sale. #MedievalSky

As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 72, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between). [2nd attempt, I won't be offended if you point out my nonsense.]

Star Trek The Original Series scene. Ok, we're on a planet in daytime and we're in front of garage or large building door of some kind. Standing in front of it we see famous workplace buddies Spock and Kirk, (or "Kpock" as the shippers famously coined them). They're standing in pinstripe gangster style suites and hats, Kirk in blue pastries Spock in Brown with an orange tie. Kirk is I think holding a tommy gun machine gun and looking at Spock, who is pointing and thinking. Closed caption reads, "Where'd you get them ears?"

𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐘𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐒: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞
David Mesquita

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TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE IN HUMAN HISTORY

After an enthusiastic beginning, yesterday, a second day of insightful presentations and discussions awaits our attendees.
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The beginning of the passage discussing a plaster used to induce vomiting and aid in the expulsion of the dead fetus is highlighted. The text reads as follows: "Emplastrum solutivum.: Ventrem deponit et vomitum facit, fetus mortuum de ventre mulieris ehicit. 3 Conficitur cum melle et omni tempore paratum habeas. Si super stomachum posueris, vomitum facit. Si super umbilicum, ventrem (sol)vit, si super renes, ventrem stringit. Si femine super pectinem positum fuerit, fetus mortuum eicit, postquam eiecerit statim tolle emplastrum."

S/he explains why it can be necessary to *induce* vomiting sometimes, & that is when a woman is laboring from a dead fetus in her uterus. The plaster described is to be laid on her belly, & then immediately removed once the fetus is expelled. This circumstance is never mentioned by any male authors!

Reminder
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠
Online Registration: 20 November

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Thanks!! Marie Cronier

Thanks! As far as I can remember, there is no information on how the manuscript reached Toledo in "Las traducciones orientales en los manuscritos de la Biblioteca Catedral de Toledo" by Millás Vallicrosa. As I only have BW images, I don't want to speculate about its history

The Mother of All Pandemics The State of Black Death Research in the Era of Covid-19 - Bibliography 05152020 - migrated 03032021.docx This is a comprehensive bibliography on the science and history of the 2nd Plague Pandemic, focusing on scholarship of the past 20 years or so. It is regularly updated. An appendix covers the 1st Plag...

Congratulations to Muhammed Omar & Nahyan Fancy (@fancynahyan.bsky.social) for the global press coverage they're getting on their new piece on the "trickster tales" at the heart of Black Death narratives. General bibliography on the whole pandemic here (#OpenAccess): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So enthusiastic that I can now see star trek on social media

The Science of Compound Medicaments - CSMBR This lecture explores al-Majūsī’s "Kitāb al-Malakī" and its Latin translation, showing how Book X on compound medicaments was reshaped into a new synthesis of pharmacology and philosophy.

Reminder

𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
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