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Advertising the Self: Gessner As a Learned Physician 1 Establishing th e facts: Conrad G essner’s Epistolae M edicinales BETWEEN THE PARTICULAR AND THE GENERAL A dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London by C a n d ic e DELISLE, University C ollege London Supervised by Vivian Nutton and Harold J. Cook Sept em b er 2008 2 UMI Number: U592543 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U592543 Published by ProQuest LLC 2013. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 I, Candice Delisle, confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. 3 A b s t r a c t Establishing the Facts: Conrad Gessner’s E p is to la e M edicinales between the Particular and the General A town physician in Zurich, famous for his Historia Animalium and his Bibliotheca universalis , Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) was also an indefatigable letter-writer who left an abundant, though largely unpublished and unexplored, correspondence. In this dissertation, I examine his printed and manuscript letters and attempt to show how sixteenth-century epistolary practices shaped early modern knowledge of nature and of medicine. Letter writing and letter-reading represented a central part of early modern scholarly life, one of the means of self-presentation scholars had at their disposal in order to confirm their belonging to the Republic of Letters. This membership was reinforced by a constant flow of exchange of natural artefacts, books, and remedies. But letters did not merely circulate objects: their essential material was news. Medical letters were an important aspect of Gessner's medical practice. Patients and colleagues wrote to ask for epistolary consultations and tell their own case stories, providing him with fuel and experience to share in the exchange of particulars, and with questions he could circulate within the learned community. Standardised into historiae, information was submitted to the consensus of the correspondents’ own networks and consolidated into generally agreed facts, capable of becoming the foundation for generalisation. Letters, however, did not cease to exist once their role in the epistolary dialogue was finished: they remained, very materially, among Gessner's notes and bookshelves. He incorporated them in his treatises, or cut and pasted them into his own collections of medical writings. Later, they were collected by his heirs, and turned into a published selection of Medical letters that constituted both a memorial to their master and a monument of knowledge made out of matters of fact, the essential content of early modern knowledge. 4 T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Abstract............................................................................................................... 4 Table of Contents ...............................................................................................5 Table of Appendices ......................................................................................... 8 Table of Figures ............................................................................................... 10 Acknowledgements..........................................................................................11 Chapter 1: Introduction ..................................................................................15 Renaissance knowledge and doubts ..........................................................................................19 Renaissance knowledge in the making ..................................................................................... 21 Historians and Gessner’s correspondence .............................................................................. 24 Sources .......................................................................................................................................... 25 Outline ........................................................................................................................................... 27 Chapter 2: Gessner’s letters in his lives .......................................................30 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 30 Section 1: A life in letters ............................................................................................................32 The training of a learned physician (1516-1541)................................................................32 1541-1554: Getting in .............................................................................................................38 1554-65: Letters: the bread and butter of scholarship ...................................................... 45 Section 2: Letters and Self-presentation ...................................................................................53 Self-presentation, rhetoric and the addressee .....................................................................55 Advertising the self: Gessner as a learned physician ......................................................... 60 Self-presentation and epistolary models ..............................................................................63 The topos of the busy man ......................................................................................................65 Section 3: Epistolary practices ...................................................................................................70 Postal services .......................................................................................................................... 72 Interrupted dialogues and group mailing .............................................................................74 Letter-reading ........................................................................................................................... 78 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................... 84 5 Chapter 3: The epistolary trade: correspondence and material exchange ........................................................................................................... 85 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 85 Section 1: Collective ideal, located nature: Gessner’s correspondents and the Republic of Letters.............................................................................................................................................87 Correspondence and collective endeavour: the discourse of the Republic of Letters. 87 Locating nature, locating expertise: Centres and periphery ............................................. 94 Section 2: Material exchange and correspondence: the epistolary trade ........................... I l l Possessing nature: collaboration and gift-giving ...............................................................I l l Specialising relationships ......................................................................................................122 Specialised networks and collective reading ......................................................................130 Intersecting circles and networks: circulating news and material from one network to another.....................................................................................................................................135 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 137 Chapter 4: Epistolary practice and medical practice ...............................140 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 140 Section 1: Gessner’s medical life: a pool of experience ...................................................... 141 Section 2: The matter of the news: consultations by letter ................................................. 146 Epistolary medical practices ................................................................................................146 Consulting by letter ............................................................................................................... 152 Never a closed case ............................................................................................................... 157 Section 3: Closing the case: from historiae in the making to story telling .......................... 161 Case narratives ....................................................................................................................... 161 Changing the history of disease ..........................................................................................166 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................
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