Miasmas and disease : public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age /
This book explores the themes of health, medicine, and the origins of infectious disease in pre-industrial Italy. Using the papers of the Magistrato alla Sanita, the Florence Health Magistracy, covering the first 30 years of the 17th century, the author recreates the ecological and medical environme...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1992.
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