🌳for dear #medieval -ists, #earlymodern -ists, #HISTmed and health folk🌳

The volume "Repairing the Body, Restoring the Soul: Kabbalah, Magic, and Philosophy in Premodern Jewish Healthcare" is out!

Contents: brill.com/view/journal...
Introduction, field assessment, summ: brill.com/view/journal...

Help. Any clever historian can point me to literature on medicines and shapes? The picture below describes "various shapes of plaster according to organs" (ie, the sites of their appl). As you can see, they bear Hebrew and Latin descriptors. Where can I read more? (c1637, Frankfurt) #skystorians