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In the middle of the sixteenth century, a young physician from the south of Germany undertook a long journey in order to improve his professional knowledge. During this medical peregrination that lasted some seven years (1548-1555), Lorenz Gryll (also Laurentius Gryllus, 1524?-1560) visited nearly the whole of Western Europe. His trip was funded by the extremely wealthy Fugger family, and one of its explicit purposes was that Gryll – after his return to Germany – would help improve the standards of medicine and medical teaching in his native region by introducing what he had learned in the core zones of medical innovation in Europe, that is Italy and France. Gryll’s journey, which we can follow thanks to his own account, triggers the main themes in this contribution about university gardens, medicine and botany in the 16th century: how medicinal were these university gardens, and in which contexts can we study their functions and uses? This excursion ultimately reveals the multifunctional organization of university gardens that went beyond mere medical teaching and ultimately shaped early modern culture.
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- Giovanni Silvano, Vittoria Feola. Foreword
- Notes on contributors
- Fabrizio Baldassarri, Fabio Zampieri. Scientiae in the History of Medicine: an Introduction
- Fabio Zampieri. The University of Padua Medical School from the Origins to the Early Modern Time: A Historical Overview
- Cynthia Klestinec. The Anatomy Theater: Towards a Performative History
- Florike Egmond. Sixteenth-Century University Gardens in a Medical and Botanical Context
- Alberto Zanatta. The Origin and Development of Medical Museum Heritage in Padua
- Roberta Ballestriero. The Science and Ethics concerning the Legacy of Human Remains and Historical Collections: The Gordon Museum of Pathology in London
- R. Allen Shotwell. Between text and practice: the anatomical injections of Berengario da Carpi
- Maria Kavvadia. Sources and resources of court medicine in Mid-Sixteenth Rome: erudition as an epistemological and ethical claim
- Alessandra Celati. The experience of the physician Girolamo Donzellini in the 1575 Venetian plague: between Scientia and heterodoxy
- Elisabeth Moreau. Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic medicine: from astral causation to pharmacology and treatment
- Fabrizio Baldassarri. Elements of Descartes' medical Scientia: books, medical schools, and collaborations
- Luca Tonetti. Testing drugs in Giorgio Baglivi's dissertation on Vesicants
- Manuel De Carli. Tracing Senguerd's footprints: sciences and tarantism at Leiden Universtiy (1667-1715)
- Pierdaniele Giaretta. Classifications from an epistemological point of view with particular attention to the classifications of diseases
- List of abstracts