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in T. Porcacchi (ed.), Prima parte delle prediche di diversi illustri theologi et
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3 The Medical Discourse
1. A. Arcangeli, ‘Play and health in medical literature’, De zeventiende eeuw, 15
(1999) 3–11, and ‘Dance and health: the Renaissance physicians’ view’,
Dance Research, 18.1 (2000) 3–30, are anticipations of the content of this
chapter.
2. R. Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from
Antiquity to the Present (London: HarperCollins, 1997), pp. 95, 107.
3. G. Olson, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1982), pp. 39–89; R. Palmer, ‘Health, hygiene and longevity
in medieval and Renaissance Europe’, in Y. Kawakita, and others (eds), History
of Hygiene (Tokyo: Ishiyaku Euro America, 1991), pp. 75–98; A. Wear, ‘The
history of personal hygiene’, in W. F. Bynum and R. Porter (eds), Companion
Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (London: Routledge, 1993), II, pp.
1283–308; P. Gil Sotres, ‘The regimens of health’, in M. D. Grmek (ed.),
Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, trans. by A. Shugaar
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), pp. 291–318; H. Mikkeli,
Hygiene in the Early Modern Medical Tradition (Helsinki: Finnish Academy
of Science and Letters, 1999); A. Wear, Knowledge and Practice in English
Medicine, 1550–1680 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp.
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4. On the German physician Petrus Lauremberg, see Mikkeli, Hygiene, pp.
101–8.
5. J. Matthaeus, Speculum sanitatis (Herborn, 1620), pp. 138–9.
6. T. Elyot, Castell of Helthe (London: T. Bertheletus, 1539), fol. 50v.
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(Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1951); Galen, ‘The exercise with the small ball’, in