Open Access Journal: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities

 [First posted in AWOL 1 May 2025, updated 13 August 2026]

 

Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities 

E-ISSN :2531-7288

ISSN: 0394-9001

Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities, founded in 1964, is an international peer-reviewed Journal published by Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza University Press). Since 1989, MnS has been edited by the History of Medicine and Bioethics Unit of the Department of  Molecular Medicine.

MnS publishes original research papers, critical reviews and short communications devoted to all aspects of History of Medicine and Biomedicine, History of Healthcare and Health Professions, History of Bioethics and Medical Humanities.

Vol. 38 No. 2 (2026)

Published: 2026-08-05

Articles

• Headache in Ancient Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen

  Stefania Fortuna, Christina Savino

  5-24

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• A Singular Perspective on Certain Pharmaceutical Practices in Early 18th-century Italy: the Travel Accounts of Jean-Baptiste Labat

  Paulina Oszajca , François Ledermann

  25-46

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• “I am Happy to have Found a New Reaction”: a Century After the Death of Camillo Golgi, the Letter Announcing the Development of the “Black Reaction”

  Paolo Mazzarello, Maria Carla Garbarino

  47-58

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• Toward a Revision of Metrodora’s Treatise: Evidence from Newly Examined Manuscripts

  Elias Valiakos

  59-98

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• Traumatic Injuries, Death, and Funeral Treatment of Andrea Fortebracci da Montone (1368-1424) in the Writings of Ancient Chroniclers

  Luca Ventura, Mirko Traversari, Federico Bruno, Benedetta Risolo, Alessandro Ricci, Achille Giuliani

  99-116

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• The investigation on the remains of Christina of Sweden (1626-1689): rereading the report of the Swedish anthropologist Carl Herman Hjortsjö (1914-1978) for a new perspective in the Queen’s historiography

  Fabiola Zurlini, Silvia Iorio, Vera Nigrisoli Wärnhjelm

  117-128

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• Hands Over Handbooks: The Making of Medical Expertise in Antiquity

  Gabriele Torcoletti

  129-160

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• “Health versus Economy”: the Recurrence of a False Dilemma in Times of Crisis. The Case of the 1991 Cholera Epidemic in Peru

  Ernesto Ortiz, Jorge Lossio

  161-174

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• Violence, Survival, and Infection: A Paleopathological Case Study from the Roman Necropolis of Marinelle Vecchie (2nd–3rd Century CE)

  Sandra Guglielmi , Giovanni Villone

  175-192

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• The Collections of historical and pedagogical ethno-anthropological busts of the University Museum of Chieti

  Jacopo Cilli, Arianna Di Felice, Flavio Stocco, Antonietta Di Fabrizio , Assunta Paolucci , Maria Del Cimmuto , Roberta De Quarto, Luigi Capasso , Ruggero D’Anastasio

  193-202

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• Fortification Spectra in Migraine Aura: Historical Origins of the Vauban Eponym

  Francesco Brigo

  203-210

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• Fashion survivors or survivors through fashion? How infectious diseases shaped fashion through the ages

  Omar Simonetti, Sara Sincovich , Caterina Di Cecco, Giulia Colin, Emanuela Sozio, Luca Fontanini, Stefano Di Bella, Mariano Martini, Giorgio Riello

  211-226

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