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From Praising the Remedy to Eulogising the Patient: Cristóbal de Castillejo’s Satire of Guaiac in Early Modern Spain (2023)
Journal Article
Bičak, I. (2023). From Praising the Remedy to Eulogising the Patient: Cristóbal de Castillejo’s Satire of Guaiac in Early Modern Spain. Social History of Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad072

The article examines the contemporary satiric treatment of a new transatlantic drug, guaiac, in a sixteenth-century poem by the Castilian writer Cristóbal de Castillejo, entitled En alabança del palo de las Indias, estando en la cura dél (In Praise o... Read More about From Praising the Remedy to Eulogising the Patient: Cristóbal de Castillejo’s Satire of Guaiac in Early Modern Spain.

A guinea for a guinea pig: a manuscript satire on England’s first animal–human blood transfusion (2019)
Journal Article
Bičak, I. (2020). A guinea for a guinea pig: a manuscript satire on England’s first animal–human blood transfusion. Renaissance Studies, 34(2), 173-190. https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12571

This article examines a manuscript satire of a famous case of seventeenth‐century blood transfusion in England between a man and a sheep. The poem, transcribed at the end of the article, tells the story of Arthur Coga, a clergyman and alcoholic who w... Read More about A guinea for a guinea pig: a manuscript satire on England’s first animal–human blood transfusion.