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Histor. - Vol. 3 - N. 3 - December 2019 | ISSN 2532-2370 MEDICINA HISTORICA Organo Ufficiale della Società Italiana di Storia della Medicina Medicina Historica is indexed in: SCOPUS Mattioli 1885 MEDICINA HISTORICA ORGANO UFFICIALE DELLA SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI STORIA DELLA MEDICINA DIRETTORE RESPONSABILE DIRETTORE SCIENTIFICO DIRETTORE EDITORIALE Federico Cioni Giuseppe Armocida Marta Licata COMITATO SCIENTIFICO INTERNAZIONALE Alfredo Buzzi Universidad de Elhem Hamada Hamdoun Roberto Martin Universidad de Buenos Aires University of Tunis Barcellona Celine ChericI Université de Victoria Angela Harden Office Mario Picozzi Insubria University, Picardie Jules Verne of NIH History and the Stetten Varese Mike Davidson British Society of Museum at the National Institutes of Ayse Gunbey Serifoglu Ege History of Medicine Health, Bethesda University Turkey Peter English Duke University Maja Mirocevic University of Ewa Skrzypek University of Ethel Felice Psychiatry Faculty of Montenegro Warsaw Medicine and Surgery, Medical Dario Piombino-Mascali Vilnius School, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta. 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