Titlebook: Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School; Ruben E. Verwaal Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87222-9ntury disease theory by two inventions: morbid anatomy and nosology—the classification of symptoms into coherent taxonomies. But while observations of symptoms and body parts focused on the effects and end results of disease, they provided no indication as to the possible cause of a disease (aetiolo

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51541-6Dutch Republic; Herman Boerhaave; Physiology; Humoral theory; Saliva; Blood; Urine; Sweat; Breast milk; Semen

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Introduction,ntributing to a new system of medicine in the eighteenth century. It aims to contribute to current historiography by shifting the focus from seventeenth-century developments and the field of anatomy towards chemistry of the bodily fluids in the eighteenth century. A major running theme is the rise o

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Savouring Alchemy,elsus, Van Helmont, and Sylvius. In a time dominated by humorist, anatomical, and mechanical views of the body, these men belonged to a new school of iatrochemistry—or medical chymistry—that relied on chemical methods to understand the human body. Focusing on the case of saliva and digestion, this c

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Piss Prophets and Urine Matters,dy of urinary diseases. Uroscopists used to analyse and distill their patients’ urine to diagnose almost any disease. But physicians like Hieronymus Gaubius instead used urine chemistry for pathological research, namely, to investigate the changing properties of urine in the course of a patient’s co

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Sweat It Out, ancient notion of insensible perspiration continued to be perceived as essential to one’s health. But despite its emphasis on quantification, Santorio’s work reflected long-standing views on perspiration closely aligned to digestion and health as balance of humours. Physicians of the Boerhaave scho