Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Consilia Literature from the Beginning
- 3 Consilium, the Physician, Patient and Res Publica Litteraria in Early Modern Consilia Literature
- 4 Consilia on the French Disease
- 5 Conclusion
- 6 An Example Case Study from the 16th Century 197 Victor Trincavellius, Consilium CXV. “A Dermal Rash with the French Disease”
- Index
6 - An Example Case Study from the 16th Century 197 Victor Trincavellius, Consilium CXV. “A Dermal Rash with the French Disease”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2022
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Consilia Literature from the Beginning
- 3 Consilium, the Physician, Patient and Res Publica Litteraria in Early Modern Consilia Literature
- 4 Consilia on the French Disease
- 5 Conclusion
- 6 An Example Case Study from the 16th Century 197 Victor Trincavellius, Consilium CXV. “A Dermal Rash with the French Disease”
- Index
Summary
Abstract
The last part of this work consists of the Consilium CXV., “A dermal rash with the French disease,” published in the collection Consilia medica of the Italian physician Vittore Trincavelli. The translation was supplemented by a brief commentary and explanations where required by the text. More detailed information on some of the medicines used has also been added. The consilium does not contain the three parts of an “ideal” consilium. It is an example of a consilium that has undergone various adjustments due to the edition, e.g. the end of the consilium was cut off in an almost violent way and so on. The task of the translation is to document the common early modern consilium.
Keywords: Trincavelli, therapy, medicals, French disease
Before we advise the noble and distinguished gentleman, it is essential to lay down the sort of foundations upon which the entire rational decomposition of our speech, which we will conduct concerning the problems that afflict him, is based. With regards to the overall constitution of the body, it is of a warm and dry temperature or nature. Even the darker color of the body indicates a certain burned and roasted state of the blood, which is testified to by the gauntness and fragility of the part and readiness, agility and quickness in all actions. All of the other parts do not fully agree with this overall mixture. Firstly – in order to start from the top – the brain is healthily heated, more moist than dry, which is proven by the amounts of excrements that drip down to the lower located parts, primarily the chest and back. These [excrements] are responsible for the catarrh and pain, which is also documented by the predisposition to longer sleep. The liver is strongly heated and also particularly dry to such a degree that it was able to alter the constitution of the entire body to its likeness. This is shown by the amount of burnt fluid [humor] and the veins, which on [this] type of body are voluminous and full of darker blood. This [burnt fluid] overburdens practically the entire body and almost continuously causes a bothersome and permanent rash. I would not consider the heart itself as strongly heated or overly dry.
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- Medical Case Studies (Consilia medica) of the Early Modern PeriodGreat Pox Documented, pp. 197 - 204Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022