Dyspepsia in the middle ages: a reference in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (14th century AD)?

Francesco Maria Galassi; Giovanni Spani; Michael Papio; Fabrizio Toscano; Marco Artico; Elena Varotto

doi:10.23750/abm.v94i6.15137

Dyspepsia in the middle ages: a reference in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (14th century AD)?

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Francesco Maria Galassi Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Poland
Giovanni Spani College of the Holy Cross, Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, United States
Michael Papio University of Massachusetts Amherst, Languages Literatures and Cultures, Amherst, United States
Fabrizio Toscano Department of Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York City, USA
Marco Artico Department of Sensory Organs, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Elena Varotto Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23750/abm.v94i6.15137

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dyspepsia; clinical history; history of medicine; Middle Ages

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05-12-2023

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Vol. 94 No. 6 (2023)

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Galassi FM, Spani G, Papio M, Toscano F, Artico M, Varotto E. Dyspepsia in the middle ages: a reference in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (14th century AD)?. Acta Biomed. 2023;94(6):e2023237. doi:10.23750/abm.v94i6.15137

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