Vol. 38 No. 2 (2026)

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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