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Save for eternity: principles of medical science in the age of Montaigne and Cervantes

This article approaches the medical arts at a time in which therapies are based on empirical knowledge, dictated by the fallacy of the authority of unshakeable traditions. "Madness" and "eccentricities" perpetuated by Old School medical craftsmen are prevalent today in the strange practices of the new charlatanism, such as trunk cell technologies.

medical knowledge; therapeutic techniques; superstition; charlatanism


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