A Description of lethal lead Intoxication in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Open Access
- 15 July 2022
- journal article
- Published by Bouti Publishing in Annals of Public Health
Abstract
Dante Alighieri is one of the most important authors of Italian and worldwide literature. He achieved lasting worldwide fame with his Divine Comedy. In this work, he reveals an impressive ability to describe medical matters. In this paper we discuss the case of Master Adam the Englishman (Magistro Adam de Anglia) presented in the Inferno as a possible case of lead intoxication induced chronic renal insufficiency.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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