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From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians, or Health Offices (jurisdiction varied from state to state)
This collection, by an international team of scholars, presentsexciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italywhich questions the conventiona
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