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Natural Medicine in Shakespeare - Paul Ferguson - 03-06-2025
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"An explosion of printed books and treatises on medicine in sixteenth-century Europe inspired new intense debates about medicine and its relation to the divine order of nature. Both trained and untrained healers engaged in close observation of the natural world, but good doctors did not rely solely on empirical observation—they also took into consideration invisible forces such as the soul."
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-78082-0_6