| Diagnosis of miracle or miraculous diagnosis? Comments on early modern understanding of unnaturalness. | |
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PMID: 19591387 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The paper deals with certain aspects of healing miracles in the 17th century. In the beginning I outline methods recently developed in the history of medicine to deal with unnatural phenomena. I use division suggested by Anne-Marie Korte and comment on sceptical, apologetical and hermeneutical approach. Further I demonstrate difficulties which we face in study of miracles on two specific cases: Our Lady of Foy, and (missing) burning scars of injured brewers. In the end I describe perhaps the most specific contemporary definition of "miraculous" which stemmed from tradition of forensic medicine. For this purpose I use a treaties of Johannes Franciscus Löw ab Erlsfeld, professor of Prague Medical Faculty in the beginning of the 18th century which follow work of famous papal physician of the previous century Paolo Zacchia. |
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Authors:
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K Cerný |
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Type: Historical Article; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Prague medical report Volume: 110 ISSN: 1214-6994 ISO Abbreviation: Prague Med Rep Publication Date: 2009 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2009-07-13 Completed Date: 2009-08-27 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 101227436 Medline TA: Prague Med Rep Country: Czech Republic |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 128-39 Citation Subset: IM |
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Charles University in Prague, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages, Prague, Czech Republic. karel.cerny@lf1.cuni.cz |
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Catholicism
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history* Diagnosis Faith Healing / history* History, 17th Century History, 18th Century Humans Religion and Medicine* Religion and Psychology* |
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