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  • Chapter 9 - Phrenitis in the Modern and Early-Modern Worlds

  • Chiara Thumiger, Cluster of Excellence Roots, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany
  • Book:
    <i>Phrenitis</i> and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought
    Published online:
    16 November 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023, pp 315-359
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    This chapter concerns the afterlife of phrenitis in the early-modern and modern era, in three main directions: the ‘anatomization of the past’ and the trajectories of Hellenism in the texts and doctrines of the medical doctors in this era; the development of Renaissance anatomy, and the post-mortem pathological discussions on the localization of phrenitis; the alternative approaches represented by Paracelsus and Paracelsianism. In the second part of the chapter the modern era is addressed through a number of episodes, or case studies: university medicine; patient reports; an episode of phrenitis contagiosa; the parallel of phrenitis in veterinary studies; the topic of drunkenness and lack of moderation in lifestyle and their role in phrenitis.