Sanctorius Sanctorius and the origins of health measurement / Teresa Hollerbach.
This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561-1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Sanctorius developed instruments to measure and quantify physiological change. As trivial as the quantit...
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface (Dr. Matteo Valleriani)
- Introduction
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations and Short Titles
- Chapter 1. Sanctorius Sanctorius--Between Koper and Venice
- Chapter 2. Sanctorius's Galenism
- Chapter 3. Sanctorius's Work in its Practical Context
- Chapter 4. Quantification in Galenic Medicine
- Chapter 5. Quantification and Certainty
- Chapter 6. The Measuring Instruments
- Chapter 7. Sanctorius Revisited
- List of Appendices.