期刊名称:Portugália: Revista do Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património da FLUP
印刷版ISSN:0871-4290
出版年度:2006
卷号:27-28
出版社:Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património da Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto (FLUP)
摘要:The studies in daily life’s material cultural should not forget the body care, as well in health as
in illness.
This article deals with archaeological finds excavated in the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha
in Coimbra (Portugal). The nuns of this community, a branch of the Franciscan Order, left us
buried artefacts that tell us about daily worries concerning hygiene and recovering from diseases
determined by the scientific study on skeletons buried indoors. Written sources are concealed
to explain the use of certain herbs, the composition of apothecaries and the contexts of use of
several vases and tools.
We precede the approach of the finds by an overview about the main means of diagnostic and
therapeutics in the 16th and 17th centuries.