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Tobias Niedenthal (aka hexaOrthorexia)
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History of Medicine/Pharmacy
● Medicinal plants in Europe
● Herbal anti-infectives
● Coordinating the Forschergruppe Klostermedizin (Research Group Monastic Medicine), Würzburg (Germany)
-> klostermedizin.de
December 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Early Medieval Medicine: How a New Corpus of Manuscripts Is Transforming the Field (Open Access)
brill.com/view/journal...

#histmed #medievalsky
December 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
The first German herbal, c. 1145, starting with Ysopo and incl. 18 drugs. The last few, by a different hand, are influenced by Salerno, but no direct source is known.

Munich, BSB Clm 536, f. 86r-87r:
daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00007...

#histmed #medievalsky
December 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Happy Easter and all that jazz.

(Guido da Siena: Nativity, c. 1275.)
December 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wenn der Schwurbelsender ARTE (@artede.bsky.social) einen Beitrag zu Hildegard von Bingen bringt, dann hört man besser nicht so genau hin.
Wenn man von einem ARTE-Beitrag über "Hildegard-Medizin" Pickel kriegt - Skeptix
(Lesedauer ca. 3 Minuten) Auf ARTE gab es kürzlich einen kurzen Beitrag zu Hildegard von Bingen. So inhaltsleer er auch war, Zeit für unkritische Aussagen zu Esoterik bleibt immer. Vor allem die sogen...
skeptix.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Yet another:
The benefits of multi-2D LC × LC compared to LC × LC for the analysis of European herbal remedies
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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What a desk!
#writingdesk
BnF MS Français 17211; Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, French translation by Claude de Seyssel, volume 1; early 16th century; f.1r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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A German obituary by the Institute for the History of Pharmacy and Medicine at the University of Marburg on Fritz Krafft

www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb16/igph...

#histstm #histsci #histmed
Wir trauern um Professor Dr. Fritz Krafft
Ein Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Fritz Krafft
www.uni-marburg.de
December 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Monkfish

Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 533; Bestiary; 13th century, middle; England; f.26r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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A gentle reminder from the past: writing words and doing calculations are crafts best done sitting at a desk wearing a fancy hat. #amwriting

The illuminated image is from 1414. #skystorians
December 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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I Love Lucy: grey, synonymous with the 1950s, everyone keeps getting bothered by a guy called Fred Mertz

German politics: erm...
i mean he does literally share his name with this guy
December 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
"ziemlich"

Aha.

"Dann startet Prinz Reuß seine Reise durch eine Welt des Irrsinns":
www.spiegel.de/panorama/rei...
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My most recent MDPI “success”:
A paper on edible underground storage organ plants in Thailand cites our work on an 18th-century elixir of life – without any connection whatsoever.

Do they just add some random recent papers?

Ah, the wonderland of MDPI on a Wednesday in late autumn!
My latest “success”: A paper on Sambucus was cited in a publication about heavy metals in camel blood and milk in Saudi Arabia.

Ah, the wonderland of MDPI on a Friday in autumn!

(That's almost as remarkable as the historic paper on Marrubium being cited as a study on mice.)
December 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Try this and 'Pin' to your feeds

I added all three hashtags - #medhist #histmed and #MedicalHistory

bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Awesome view from my office: sunset over Lake Constance 😍
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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My office window view
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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In Elsterwerda haben vorgestern Einbrecher eine Badewanne aus einer Wohnung gestohlen. Wer in der Region aktuell sein Konsumverhalten umstellt und als Erstkäufer mehr als fünf Packungen „Hab dich lieb“-Badekristalle von Kneipp im Warenkorb hat, macht sich in meinen Augen sehr verdächtig.
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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An elephant protecting its young from a dragon.
#ElephantonFriday
BnF MS Latin 6838B; anonymi tractatus de quadrupedibus, de avibus et de piscibus; 14th century; f.4v
@gallicabnf.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ohne die "Magischen Magenkekse" ging in der Weihnachtsbäckerei einer Hildegard von Bingen gar nichts.

Danach konnte man praktisch den Ur-Dinkel stellen!
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Peer review status update:
During the first pass, Reviewer 1 and Reviewer 2 (me) missed what was probably the biggest problem.

It only occurred to me now, in Revision 1.

Where's the hole I can hide in?
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Good historians know that being a true German Protestant pamphletist in #earlymodern Europe included making pejorative jokes with sausage-content to vilify Catholic clergy.

Like this "Ja, ein Leberwurst" comment in a marginalia next to a passage cited from disliked Catholic sermon #skystorians
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Man kann sich auch ganz einfach selbst ein Kochbuch mit den Rezepten Hildegards zusammenstellen, dafür muss man kein Buch kaufen.

Alle überlieferten Kochrezepte Hildegards finden sich im Bild rechts. Grundlage ist das von der Abtei in Eibingen herausgegebene Gesamtwerk in 10 Bänden.

#lifehack
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM