Index
Achillini, Alessandro
100, 115
Africanus, Costantinus
78
Alberto da Gandino
89
Alderotti, Taddeo
77, 81, 87, 88 n. 75, 90–91, 94, 95 n. 108
Alfonso V the Magnanimous, King
55, 67 n. 54
Aljuba
59
Allin, John
158, 163–164
Anatomy
Anatomical collections
140, 145
Anatomical dissections
5, 16, 74–75, 81, 91, 179, 184
Anatomical images
101
Anatomical lessons
153
Anatomical texts
78 n. 29, 79 n. 35, 107–108, 110, 113, 115
Angel(s)
124
Antonius de Mediolano
116
Apostolici Regiminis
134
Apothecaries
2, 8, 13, 163, 230
Aragon, Crown of
2, 54 n. 8, 57, 58 n. 21, 66 n. 50, 67 n. 54
Aristotle of Stagira
Aristotelian philosophy
97
Aristotelian-Galenic medicine
45, 250, 261
Arnau de Vilanova
70, 77 n. 22
Asphyxiation
271, 293
Augsburg
224, 225 n. 2, 226 n. 4, 227, 229 n. 14, 230, 238
Augustine of Hippo
195
Aurifaber, Johannes
209 n. 61
Autopsy
Etymology
19–20
First recorded judicial
1, 133
Report
65–66, 68, 71, 85, 88, 97, 109, 116, 126, 131, 133, 145–147, 163, 168, 170–172, 181, 218, 221, 224–225, 229, 231, 236, 238, 250, 271–272, 274–275, 278, 284–288, 290
& Dissection
7, 8 n. 35, 18, 71–74, 75 n. 12, 77 n. 25, 78–80, 81 n. 44, 83, 86–87, 90–91, 93–95, 99, 100 n. 134, 101, 107, 109–111, 113–115, 118, 132–134, 142, 149, 153–154, 156, 158–168, 171–173, 235
Averroes
90
Avicenna
43, 80, 82, 90, 96, 99, 101
Bacon, Francis
43
Badges
Identifying Muslims and Jews
59
Bahrprobe
,
see Cruentation
Baldo degli Ubaldi
103 n. 146
Baptism
sub Condicione
139
Barbers
2, 8, 13
Bartholin, Thomas
12, 173
Bartolo da Sassoferrato
103 n. 146
Bartolomeo da Varignana
1, 71, 72 n. 3, 85–86, 89 n. 79
Bartolomeo di Strada San Donato
85
Batlle general
59
Bats
119
Beaumont, Elie de
284, 289
Benedetti, Alessandro
99, 108–109, 112, 115, 179
Benedict XIV, Pope
183
Benivieni, Antonio
113
Berengario da Carpi
99–100, 109, 114
Bertran, Angelina
56, 67 n. 54
Bianchi, Marcantonio
37
Bier right
,
see Cruentation
4, 7, 15, 24
Bills of Mortality
169–170
Birth
Caesarean delivery
114
Premature
231, 234–235
Stillbirth
229, 232
of Monsters
120–122, 124 n. 14, 16, 126, 131, 136, 139–140, 143, 147
Bladder
Gall bladder
112
Blood
Liquefaction of
45
Menstrual
136
Symbolism
24, 58
Bloud, lawyer
291
Bohier, Nicolas de
34, 36
Bologna,University of
88 n. 76, 100, 183
Boniface VIII, Pope
5
Bonioli, Camillo
190
Boutillier, Jean
201
Bradwell, Steven
151
Braga Council
202
Brain
63 n. 40, 97, 111, 115 n. 21, 22, 116, 132, 146, 220, 270, 280
Brasbridge, Thomas
151
Briganti, Tommaso
258, 266–267
Brissen, Claude
277
Brotherhood
of Saint John of Death,
181, 188, 190
of the Innocents
69
Bucholtz, Wilhelm
231 n. 21, 234, 236, 240
Burial
Premature
279
Burnet, Alexander
163
Büttner, Christoph Gottlieb
231–232, 234–235, 239–240
Calas case
283, 284 n. 57
Caldani, Leopoldo
190
Calza, Luigi
183
Camacho, Joan
133
Camper, Peter
241–242
Carpzov, Benedict
37 n. 64, 195, 199 n. 21, 201, 203–205, 210 n. 66
Casseri, Giulio
184, 185 n. 35, 186 n. 42
Celichius, Andreas
204, 212–213
Centuriae
108
Champeaux, Claude
276, 289–291
Chrétien de Troyes
24
Ciret, René
138
Claro, Giulio
199, 204, 205 n. 46
Codronchi, Giovanni Battista
232, 259
College of Physicians
153, 163, 170
Colombo, Realdo
111, 131
Color
60, 62, 66, 111–112, 114, 116–117, 234, 239, 277
Commis
249 n. 24
Conjoined twins
Johanna and Melchiora
133
John and Jerome
138
John and Joanne
136
Constitutio criminalis Bambergensis
198
Constitutio criminalis Carolina
14, 198, 199 n. 20, 226
Consultations de chirurgie
290
Contagion theory
150
Contarini, family
Contarini, Marc’Antonio
176–178
Corpse(s) or cadaver(s)
As ‘epistemic objects’
26
Behavior towards
18
Boiling
111
Decomposition of
49, 239
Dissection of
7, 78–79, 86, 91, 115 n. 22, 153–154, 161–162, 177–179, 187
Embalming
75, 144–145
Identification of
2, 35, 54, 55 n. 11, 56, 58 n. 21, 63, 67 n. 54, 69–70, 97
Inflating
117
Injecting
115
Insufflating
111, 276–277
of Monsters
120–122, 124 n. 14, 16, 126, 131, 136, 139–140, 143, 147
Snatched
188, 190
Uncorrupted
6, 56
Use of convicts
176
Corti, Matteo
109
Criminal Ordinances (Spanish Low Countries)
14
Cristiani, Giacomo
85
Cruentation
as a Judicial practice
30
Frankish hypothesis
28
in Literature
23–24
Jewish hypothesis
28
Rites
187
Cuneus, Gabriel
138
Damhouder, Joos De
195, 201, 202 n. 32, 204–205
de Blégny, Nicolas
276
De Damhouder, Joos
195, 201, 202 n. 32
de Facs, Ramon
68
de Galet-Duplessis, Jean
285
de la Rochette, lawyer
36, 291
De Luca, Carlo Antonio
264–265
De Villiers, Jacques-François
276
Death
& Life
48–52
Apparent
9, 80, 230, 232, 240–241, 244, 279
Evolution of the concept
48–51
in Northern Europe
51
in Southern Europe
49–50
Deciani, Tiberio
199, 202 n. 32
Dedeken, Georg
207 n. 54, 211
Denominations
Anabaptists
140
Anglican
25
Calvinist
283
Catholic
10, 12, 18, 25, 40–41, 49–50, 122, 126, 129, 131, 139–140, 181, 202, 210
Huguenots
285
Lutheran
13, 25, 42, 126 n. 20, 140, 206, 207 n. 51, 210–212
Des Essarts, Nicolas-Toussaint le Moyne
284
Descartes René
Cartesian philosophy
146
Desgranges, Jean-Baptiste
293
Detestandae feritatis
5
Devaux, Jean
254–257, 261–262, 267, 276
Devil(s)
Selbstmord-Teufel
210
Dey, Joseph
163–165
Deyling, Salomon
140
di Capua, Leonardo
263
Diedo, Angelo
190
Digest
16, 83
Disgust
177, 200
Dissection
Public
7 n. 30, 16, 19, 33, 56 n. 14, 74 n. 10, 83, 86, 92, 94, 99, 100 n. 133, 107, 113, 127, 132, 134, 139–140, 144–145, 164, 168 n. 70, 169, 175–179, 182, 184, 187–188, 195–196, 208, 216, 220–221, 243, 271–272, 277 n. 31, 278, 283–284, 289–291, 294
Techniques
16–17, 70, 75, 78, 107–108, 110–112, 114, 118, 132, 173, 232, 271, 280–281, 293
of Saints
26, 42
of Monsters
120–122, 124 n. 14, 16, 126, 131, 136, 139–140, 143, 147
of Criminals
182, 217
of Fetuses
101
& Autopsy,
1–2, 5, 7, 15, 17, 19–20, 71, 83, 85 n. 61, 86–87, 91, 98, 117, 121, 131–134, 136, 141–142, 144–147, 153–155, 159, 161, 163, 178, 181, 214, 218 n. 98, 221, 235–236, 240, 272, 276, 281
Docimasia
,
see Lung test
236, 240
Donkey’s funeral
201
Dottweiler, Maria
224–225
Douglas, Mary
5, 119
Drowning
19, 64–68, 203, 219, 270–273, 276–278, 280–283, 286–289, 291–294
Dub, King of Scotland
26
Duglioli, Elena
114
Dura mater
116
Edward, Prince of Wales
23
Elvert, Emanuel Gottlieb
217–221
Encyclopédie
19, 274–275, 279, 285
Erfahrungsseelenkunde
221
Estienne, Charles
110, 114–115
Eustachio, Bartolomeo
111
Exhumation
62, 180, 289
Exorcism
exorcistic practices
33
Fabrici d’Acquapendente, Girolamo
180 n. 15
Faissole, Jean
276, 281 n. 44, 283 n. 52, 289–291, 292 n. 89
Falloppia, Gabriele
100, 178
Fedele, Fortunato
14, 118, 259
Ferragut, Joan
68
Ferro, Marco
190, 266 n. 91
Fiscal medicine
257
Fodéré, François-Emmanuel
294
Forensic medicine
legal medicine
8, 14, 70, 171 n. 80, 189–190, 268 n. 99, 273, 275, 283, 288, 292, 294
Formosus, Pope
3–4
Fracastoro, Girolamo
150
Freisinger Rechtsbuch
31, 32 n. 38
French pox
150
Galen of Pergamon
Galenic medicine
58
Aristotelian-Galenic doctrine
45, 250, 261
Galet-Duplessis, Jean de
285
Garcia, Gabriel
67 n. 54, 68
Garseta
59
Geese, growing on trees
119
Gemma, Cornelius
43
Gendry, René
249–252, 254 n. 43, 255–257, 261
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore
120
Gherard of Cremona
79–80
Giovanni da Brescia
1, 71, 85
Giro, Matteo
181 n. 22, 187 n. 44, 189
Giustiniani, Girolamo
181, 189, 260 n. 70
Giustiniano, Giovanni
180–181
Glover, John
163
Glymann, Adrian
37
Graunt, John
169–172
Greffier
247 n. 11
Gregory IX, Pope
103 n. 147
Guido da Vigevano
99, 101
Gurrea, Pedro
67 n. 56, 68
Gurrea, Pere
66, 67 n. 56, 68 n. 59
Guy de Chauliac
95, 98
Hammelmann, Hermann
210
Hartmann von Aue
24
Harvey, William
152 n. 15, 153 n. 21, 236
Hauin, Anna Barbara
238–239, 244
Head wound(s)
115–116, 118
Helmont, Jan Baptista van,
43, 44 n. 106, 154–155, 156 n. 33, 160–161
Helmontian philosophy
154–155
Hendrigus de Tarvisio
116
Henricus de Bel de Mondis
116
Henry VI, King
23
Hermaphrodites
119, 136
Hodges, Nathaniel
150–152
Hugh of St. Victor
26
Husson, Pierre
285
Hypochondria
216
Iatrochemistry
42, 153–155, 163–164
Illuminati
218
Imagination
43, 45–46, 47 n. 121, 130 n. 35, 161
Individuation
127, 138, 140
Infanticide
Ascertaining age
233
Ingrassia, Filippo
259
Innocent III, Pope
2, 83, 131
Investigation
3–4, 10, 18, 37, 54, 65, 83–88, 90, 94, 118, 149, 215–216, 224–227, 230, 232, 236, 239, 285, 289–290, 294
Jaen, Johann
146
Jaundice
112
Jewish
Anti-Jewish polemic
28
Johann VII of Mecklenburg, Duke
212–213
Johnson, William
163
Journal des Sçavans
142, 144, 146
Judas desperatus
204
Judge(s)
175
Judgment day and resurrection
70
Kephale, Richard
158, 170
Kidney(s), stones
132
Kühn, Johann Gottlieb
221
Lacroix, Firmin de
284
Lafosse, Jean
274–275, 285
Laguna, Andreas de
109
Landrecht of 1620
202
Lateran Council
Fourth
29, 81
Fifth
31, 134
Law
Concepts of
10–11, 209
Accusatory legal system
11, 13, 35
Inquisitorial legal system
12–14, 36, 246, 252, 273
Le Brun de la Rochette, Claude
36
Léger, Charles Louis
277
Libavius (Libau), Andreas
35, 45
Liguoro, Ottavio
265–266
Liminal beings
119
Linné, Carl von
120
Littre, Alexis
281–282
Liver
Grooved
133
Loder, Justus Christian von
240
London
17, 149–150, 152–153, 155, 168–171
Louis, Antoine
273, 276–283, 287–289, 292–294
Louis XIV, King
252, 254, 273–274
Loyseau, lawyer
291
Lübecker Rechtsbuch
198
Lung(s)
Lung test
236–244
Luther, Martin
on Nature
25
on Suicide
197, 202 n. 32, 209 n. 65, 216, 218–221
Lysera, Michael
173
Magdeburger Recht
198
Maggi, Girolamo
47
Mahon, Paul-Augustin-Olivier
294
Malaropa
60
Manosque
2, 86, 116
Marchetti, Domenico
186
Maria of Aragon, Queen
55
Marsili, Ippolito
30, 31 n. 37
Martinenq, Jean Baptiste Thomas
279
Mary of Burgundy, Duchess
201
Marzio, Galeotto
47, 222 n. 115
Massa, Nicolò
110, 112–113, 115, 117, 118 n. 31
Mazini, Giambattista
183
Measles
150
Medical experts
2, 80, 227
Meißner Rechtsbuch
198
Melancholy
205, 209, 213–214, 216, 220, 222
Melanchthon, Philip
on Cruentation
45
on Suicide
197, 202 n. 32, 209 n. 65, 216, 218–221
Ménuret de Chambaud, Jean-Joseph
270
Miasmic theory
152
Midwifes
61–62, 260
Milledonne, Antonio
178–179
Miracles
Cessation of
51
and Divine justice
44
miracula mortuorum
8, 44, 50
Miscellanea curiosa
142
Molinetto, Michel’Angelo
180, 181 n. 20, 186
Mondino de’ Liuzzi
73, 91, 94, 108
Monster(s)
Birth of
6 n. 24, 41 n. 88, 175, 215 n. 83, 221, 231
Dissection
7, 8 n. 35, 18, 71–74, 75 n. 12, 77 n. 25, 78–80, 81 n. 44, 83, 86–87, 90–91, 93–95, 99, 100 n. 134, 101, 107, 109–111, 113–115, 118, 132–134, 142, 149, 153–154, 156, 158–168, 171–173, 235
Double
17, 121, 127, 129–130, 133, 135–147
Etymology
120
of Ravenna
124
Triple
128, 136, 138
Morbo gallico
112
Morgagni, Giambattista
182–183, 184 n. 32, 185 n. 35, 189
Morgue
247 n. 11, 277
Muslims
16, 55, 59–60, 69–70
Naples, Kingdom of
19, 45, 246, 247 n. 8, 257, 259, 265, 267–268
Navarro, Rodrigo
133
Necromancy
8, 51
Niccolò da Reggio
80, 91
Nitzschin, Elisabeth
193–194, 213, 221
O’ Dowde, Thomas
163
Ordonnance criminelle
273
Ordonnance générale sur le fait de la justice, police et finances
14
Osiander, Friedrich Benjamin
218
Padua, University of
175–176, 180 n. 18, 187, 190
Paedobaptism
139
Paracelsus (Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim)
Archeus
161
Paracelsian philosophy
43
Paradis, Edme-Pierre
277–278
Paré, Ambroise
131 n. 38, 137–138, 248–249, 251, 255, 257, 259, 264, 276
Penis
115
Peritoneum
115
Peter IV the Ceremonious, King
70 n. 63
Peter of Abano
46
Petit, Antoine
282
Philosopher’s stone
136
Philosophical Transactions
142, 145
Phlegm
112
Pia, Philippe-Nicolas
276
Pick, William
156, 161, 164
Pierre-Paul Sirven
284, 287 n. 72, 288 n. 75
Pighi, Giacomo
185–186
Pini, Carlo Antonio
182
Plague
Contagion
17, 149–150, 152–153, 155, 158, 162, 168, 173–174
Eighth epidemic
55
London
17, 149–150, 152–153, 155, 159 n. 44, 168–172
Tokens
126, 158, 163, 172
Ploucquet, Gottfried Wilhelm
234–235, 236 n. 36, 237, 239–242
Poison and poisoning
1, 5, 40, 71, 85–88, 114, 155, 165, 203, 219, 231, 250–251, 255–256, 261–262, 264–267
Porcell, Juan Tomás
113
Portal, Antoine
250 n. 25, 276
Postmortem
Amputation
217
Antipathy
44, 188
Baptism
64, 121, 130, 133, 134, 138, 139, 140, 144, 146, 147, 206
Sympathy
44
Trial
3, 8–9, 29 n. 33, 79 n. 35, 85, 90, 92–93, 97, 165, 194, 208, 214, 222, 226, 273, 283–286, 288–291
Pressavin Jean-Baptiste
290
Prévôté
247
Prophylaxis
151, 160
Protestant Reformation
10, 12, 25, 30
Providence
10–11, 120
Punishment
Post-mortem
195–196, 200–201
Ritual of
45
Purgatory
6, 41, 49–50
Puy, Joachim Puy
290
Pyl, Theodor
221–222
Quodlibet(s)
139
Radio, Jaume
66–68
Rauchdorn, Heinrich
199–201
Rayger, Karel
236
Raynaud, Théophile
41
Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de
276, 280, 281 n. 42, 282
Rete mirabile
111
Revenant(s) and ghost(s)
6, 41, 51, 127
Richard I of York, Duke
24
Richard III, King
24
Richer, François
284, 288 n. 77
Riolan, John the Younger
141–142, 173
Robert of Melun
26
Roger Bacon
75, 102
Roig, Jaume
65 n. 48
Rolandi, Paolo
85
Rouge, Claudine
288–291
Royal College of Physicians
153
Rüeffin, Agatha
229
Ruysch, Frederik
145
Sachsenspiegel-Landrecht
198–199
Saint-Côme École Pratique
281
Salamanca, School of
197
Schilling, Diebold
32
Schmitt, Wilhelm Joseph
240 n. 47, 242
Schott, Gaspar
41, 44 n. 108, 48, 137 n. 56
Schröck, Lucas
238–239
Scot, Michael
79
Scurvy
150
Sénac, Jean-Baptiste
282
Sensorium commune
218, 220
Sepulveda, Hernando de
133
Short, Thomas
171
Sirven, family
Sirven, Elisabeth
284
Sirven, Pierre-Paul
284–287, 288 n. 75, 289, 292
Small pox
150
Smell and stink
151–154
Snakes
119
Society of Chemical Physicians
153
Soto, Domingo de
197
Soul
Destine after death
41, 49–50
Ensoulment
134, 147, 233
Speroni, Sperone
177
Spirits
42, 46–47, 145
Spleen
112, 115 n. 21, 132, 220, 236
Spotted fever
150, 158–159, 161
St. Claire of Montefalco
4
St. Januarius of Benevento
45
St. Wilgefortis
136
Starkey, George
163–165
Stubbe, Henry
166–167
Suicide
Destiny of the souls
208
Parasuicide
199
under English law
196
under German law
198–199
under Italian law
199
under Roman law
203
Surgeons
1–2, 8, 13, 54–55, 68, 71, 80–82, 87–88, 102, 107, 114–115, 117, 131, 153, 159, 163–164, 170, 176, 183, 187, 190, 216, 230, 247 n. 11, 271–279, 281, 283, 285, 289–292, 294
Swammerdam, Jan
236
Tartars
70 n. 63
Tattoos
Use for identification
16, 69
Testes
115, 131 n. 38, 138 n. 59, 144 n. 81
Thomas Aquinas
26, 42, 102, 130, 196–197
Thomas of Cantimpré
39
Thomson, George
132, 145, 153–169, 171–174
Thumb
35
Till, Eric
208
Tillison, John
163
Tiroler Halsgerichtsordnung
199
Tiroler Landesgerichtsordnung
199
Tomasini, Jacopo Filippo
185
Torta, Carlo
185–188
Trent, Council of
11, 49
Trinity
127–129, 146 n. 92
Tron, Giovanni
181
Tübingen, University of
230, 234
Tyson, Edward
145
Urine
110, 153
Valencia
16, 53–56, 57 n. 17, 18, 19, 58–61, 63 n. 39, 64–65, 66 n. 50, 67, 68 n. 56, 57, 69–70
Vampire(s)
51
van der Maes, Everard Crynsz
142
van Helmont, Jan Baptista
,
see Helmont, Jan Baptista van
154–155, 156 n. 33, 160–161
Vandelli, Girolamo
189
Varchi, Benedetto
135 n. 52
Venice
2, 18, 115–117, 145, 170 n. 80, 171 n. 80, 177 n. 5, 178–179, 181–182, 184, 190, 265
Vesalius, Andreas
73, 78, 94, 100 n. 133, 110–111, 114–115, 131, 176–177, 187
Vesling, John
180
Vision
Epistemology of
13, 194
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
283–284, 285 n. 62, 289
von Loder, Justus Christian
240
von Spreti, Franz Sales
218
Walter, Jean-Théophile
292
Water
in the Lungs
273, 277, 281–283, 291–293
Webster, John
39, 44 n. 106, 153 n. 21
Wielant, Filips
201, 202 n. 32
Wigand, Johannes
211–212
William of Moerbeke
79
William of Ockham
77
William of Saliceto
81–82, 91, 103
Windpipe
135
Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne
279
Witches & witchcraft
7, 42
Zacchia, Paolo
14, 35, 38, 40, 42 n. 100, 47, 48 n. 128, 177 n. 7, 180, 256, 257 n. 56, 259, 261, 268
Zedler’s Universal-Lexicon
214
Zerbi, Gabriele
100, 109