Abstract

Saul Jarcho's contributions to our understanding of clinical medicine in eighteenth-century Italy are well known. During the past decades he has uncovered and then meticulously translated case books, consultation letters, reports, and essays written by some notable physicians, including Lancisi, Albertini, and now Francesco Torti (1658-1741). A graduate of the University of Bologna, Torti returned to his alma mater as professor of medicine and today is best known for his work on ague or intermittent fever (later reformulated as malaria) and the employment of Peruvian bark (or cinchona) for its treatment. The bulk of Torti's work reproduced here consists of his extensive consultation practice conducted by mail with both patients and their physicians, a common and lucrative eighteenth-century procedure allowing prominent European academics from Boerhaave to Cullen the opportunity to widen their circle of patients.

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