[Sca-cooks] Thoughts on food as medicine

[Raphaella DiContini]

Johnnae, you are amazing! Thank goodness I have a three day weekend ahead of me 
to spend following all of these information leads! 

 
A million thanks, 
Raffaella 




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From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
To: Raphaella DiContini <raphaellad at yahoo.com>; Cooks within the SCA 
<sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 6:52:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Thoughts on food as medicine

What I thought was interesting about the Mauriceau text were the number of times 
the water or wine quenched with iron showed up as a treatment. 


You asked about  La commare o raccoglitrice
A later edition is up at

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k51217h

The link came off a Worldcat search
La commare o raccoglitrice : divisa in tre libri : in questa ultima editione 
corretta e accresciuta di due trattati ([Reprod.]) / Scipion Mercurio
Author:Girolamo Mercurio 
Publisher:1686 per Gio. Francesco Valuasense (in Venetia) 
Edition/Format: Internet resource: Italian 

Internet archive shows a copy 

La commare o' raccoglitrice. Dell' eccellentissimo Signor Scipion Mercvrio, 
filosofo, medico, e cittadino Romano. Divisa in tre' libri - Mercurio, Girolamo, 
d. 1615
Head- and tailpieces; initials; side notes

http://www.archive.org/details/lacommareoraccog00merc
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There are a number of ways to search this in general.

http://www.archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary

The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a digital curation collaborative among 
some of the world’s leading medical libraries. 



Worldcat [www.worldcat.org] 
allows one to tailor a search so you could search under maternal health diet 
history which produces 431 items.

National Library of Medicine is available
A search there on medieval history maternal health diet is 10,000 plus items. 
 You'll have to choose your keywords and tailor those searches down to very 
specific terms.

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as for what books were published first in Italy and then say in France and 
England, my choice to do this would be to check EEBO or the ESTC and search 
there.
From the ESTC [http://estc.bl.uk

There's an edition of Mauriceau from 1688 titled 
De mulierum prægnantium, parturientium, et puerperam morbis.

What's valuable is the note states: First published in 1668 in French under 
title: "Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées".  

And it gives you all the subject headings to look under to locate other volumes.

Obstetrics -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.   
Infants (Newborn) -- Diseases -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.   
Natural Childbirth -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.   
Perinatology -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.   
Pregnancy -- Complications -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800
This is getting long. I'll finish up in another post

Johnnae


On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Raphaella DiContini wrote: asked various questions