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Thursday, October 26, 2023
A Few Medical Firsts
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Gentile da Foligno was a physician who learned his art at Padua and Bologna and then became a teacher—quite a wealthy one, as it happens. At...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
The Poison that Cures
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It started with King Mithridates IV of Pontus (132 - 63 BCE), who was afraid of being poisoned. He wanted to know all about poisons, so he n...
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