Gout and the Golden Fleece: Experimentation on Recipes through Chymical Correspondence

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23 avril 2015

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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joelklein, « Gout and the Golden Fleece: Experimentation on Recipes through Chymical Correspondence », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tctn

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Michael Döring’s (d. 1641) gout and arthritis* pains were sometimes so severe that he could not leave his house on foot to visit patients throughout the city of Breslau (a.k.a. Wroclaw). Desperate to find a cure, or at least some respite from his miserable condition, he spent his adult life searching for a recipe that he could use to make a medicine. Fig. 1: Line engraving of Daniel Sennert by S. Furck, 1650. Image from Wellcome Images, used under Creative Commons 2.0 Licence. We know this ...

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