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Between medicine and literature: Paratexts of Latin treatises on the Polish plait as a sign of Renaissance erudition
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The article deals with issues related to the cultural phenomenon of an ailment called a Polish plait (plica Polonica). The article is devoted to the first stage of interest in this disease in Europe in the 17th century. The main subject of interest is the extensive treatise “De plica quam Poloni gwozdziec, Roxolani kołtunum vocant liber”, whose author was a well-known professor of medicine from Padua, Ercole Sassonia (Hercules Saxonia). Literary texts written in Latin also indicate that medical treatises were addressed to recipients who represented similar interests and education.
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