Sources of Ancient Healing Thermalism

Castelli

Phyisician from Bologna best-known for short treatise on Porretta hotsprings called Recepta aquae balnei de Porrecta written in 1351. He probably graduated in 1335 at the university of Bologna.

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Paduan physician and humanist from Italian Renaissance. He was professor of practical medicine at the Studium Venetum of Padua before becoming court physician to the House of Este at Ferrara

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Seneca

REV Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE – 65 CE) Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in Hispania, and was trained in rhetoric and philosophy in Rome.

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