La morale du sirop. Thérapies médico-morales pour la guérison de la mélancolie

This paper discusses the curious work of a rather unknown French physician, published in 1615, only a few years prior to the first edition of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy. Gabriel Droyn’s Le Royal syrop de pommes, antidote des passions melancholiques (1615) allegedly focuses on a reputedly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Radu Suciu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2008-06-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/898