Sudden death : medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome /
In 1705-1706, an 'epidemic' of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XI's physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, was ordered to perform a series of dissections to discover the cause of the epidemic, which hindered confession, thus threatening the victim's salvation. The boo...
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Farnham [England] ; Burlington, Vt. :
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