Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
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Department of Medicine, Universities of Manchester, Brussels and Liege Universities, Belgium

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• Research Article   
  Fish and Cancer in Early Modern Paduan Consilia a Galenic Question in the History of Dietetics
  Author(s): Daniel Droixhe*
  
  In the Therapeutics, to Glaucon, Galen devotes a chapter to ‘The causes and treatment of cancer and elephantiasis’. As for diet, he writes: ‘Give rockfish, give all types of birds, except those living in marshes.’ This article deals with the dietary recommendations concerning ‘rockfish’ in the consilia relating to ‘cancer’ and which were published in Padua in early modern times. The Paduan authors are correlated with their different generations in accordance with the periodization of Renaissance dietetics. The term ‘cancer’ and the localization of the organs which are affected (breast, uterus, liver, nostril, lip) are explained and situated with reference to the patho-physiological knowledge of the time. Galen’s statement about ‘rockfish’ is specified in his On the Powers of Foods, and the exclusion of other.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2155-9600.21.s8.1000826

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