Friday, July 09, 2010
This post points to some early tracts on the French Disease (often identified as syphilis) and offers a brief account of Joseph Grünpeck’s two works on the disease, highlighting his astrological account of the illness.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 07/09 at 11:23 AM
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Earthquakes were commonly associated with celestial phenomena, either comets or planetary conjunctions. They were also connected to the outbreak of diseases. A fragment from some university lectures points to how astrology explained both earthquakes and diseases in early modern Europe.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 02/20 at 10:55 PM
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Albrecht Dürer’s syphilitic man illustrated a poem on syphilis by the Nürnberg physician Theodore Ulsenius who, like other physicians of the time, used astrology to explain the diseases advent, spread, and symptoms.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 09/24 at 05:43 AM
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