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Very little has been written on the unique historical medical heritage of the National Palace of Mafra in Portugal, which celebrated its new status as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2019. This book brings together a set of innovative studies which consider the importance of this unique collection of medical texts and items of material medical culture. Using a multifaceted approach, topics as diverse as the rise of alchemy at the hands of Paracelsus, the lives and contributions of neglected eighteenth century physicians, and the history of elements of the materia medica are brought together in this celebration of a Portuguese national icon. This book will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of science, and especially those who enjoy the history of medicine and pharmacy, and bibliographic studies.

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Maria do Sameiro Barroso, MD, is a Family Medicine Specialist, Germanist, poet, translator, essayist, and researcher in the history of medicine. She is the Director of the Department of History of Medicine of the Portuguese Medical Association, and an invited lecturer in the History of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. She is also a Researcher at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon and at the Research Centre for Anthropology and Health of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She was Vice-President of the 46th International Society for the History of Medicine Congress held in Lisbon in 2018.Christopher J. Duffin, PhD, is currently a Scientific Associate in the Earth Science Department at The Natural History Museum in London, and President of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy. Originally qualifying as a geologist, he holds PhD degrees in Vertebrate Palaeontology and the History of Medicine. An award-winning palaeontologist, he has published extensively on a wide range of fossil groups, especially sharks and their allies. He is the co-author of the Handbook of Paleoichthyology Volume 3D (2010), and has edited several books on the history of medicine.Germano de Sousa, MD, is a Clinical Pathologist, and Full Invited Professor at Atlântica University, Portugal. President of the Lisbon 46th ISHM Congress in 2018, he is currently High Commissioner for The National Health Museum. He was awarded the 2019 “Collector Prize” by the Portuguese Association of Museology for his wide-ranging collection of objects relating to the history of medicine.

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