Physicist's dialogues: tradicional medicine and scholarly medicine in Gil Vicente's theater (c.1465-1537?)

Authors

  • Denise Rocha Universidade Federal do Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i29.109794

Keywords:

Gil Vicente, Autos dos Físicos, medicine, melancholy

Abstract

This study was carried out to describe the practices used by popular medicine and by scholarly medicine in the 16th  century,  based on Empedocles, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, and Ptolemy (theory of humors (fluids) of Man (blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile), taught at the universities of Lisbon, Coimbra and Salamanca and which were mentioned in Autos dos Físicos (1524?), by Gil Vicente (c.1465-1537?), concerned melancholy.

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Author Biography

  • Denise Rocha, Universidade Federal do Ceará

    Letras- UNESP Assis

    História- Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Alemanha

    Pós-Doutoranda na UFC, Fortaleza

     

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Published

2016-09-27

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2016): Tecidos do humano - literatura e medicina

Section

Dossiê 29: Tecidos do Humano - Literatura e Medicina

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Copyright (c) 2016 Denise Rocha

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How to Cite

ROCHA, Denise. Physicist’s dialogues: tradicional medicine and scholarly medicine in Gil Vicente’s theater (c.1465-1537?). Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 1, p. 285–310, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i29.109794. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/109794.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.