Champignons de couches by Paulet #fungifriends #histsci
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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
Профиль VivelyHistories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Marie Curie Fellow at Bologna and Lausanne. Yale PhD
#earlymodern Do you believe in coincidence? June 16 Ginzburg disappeared the same day Marc Bloch was executed bu the Nazi www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italianoAveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolariwww.repubblica.it
What about books that "think with plants and fungi"? una recensione di libri che "pensno con piante e funghi" per L'indice dei libri #histsci #fungi #MycoBookClub www.lindiceonline.com/articles/18c...
Funghi e piante per ripensare il mondoFunghi e piante per ripensare il mondowww.lindiceonline.comsuper super happy to share my latest article on the World Wide Silk Web! It was a great experience to write on the 19th century (open access) #histsci #histstm #history www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
World Wide Silk Web: the Padua sericulture station and the international circulation of techno-entomology (1869–1900) | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge CoreWorld Wide Silk Web: the Padua sericulture station and the international circulation of techno-entomology (1869–1900)www.cambridge.orgI started looking at this reversal between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in The State Drug but more research is needed on the global commerce of theriac!
Duygu YıldırımEven when we look at just three key items, we can see the Ottoman Empire’s place within the global economy at the beginning of the 18th century: first, theriac, a valuable medicinal compound, initially moved from the Ottoman Empire to Italy, but later this direction was reversed. +
In early modern Italy many medicines, especially patent ones, came with a little sheet informing patients of how to use them, when, and for what. Medical regulation came out of state offices and guild government #earlymodern #histmed
Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh)Once upon a time, medicine labels didn’t tell you what you were taking. 💊 Transparency had to be fought for — often after harm was already done. Regulation didn’t come out of nowhere. #MedicalHistory #Brewminate