Mezi Markem Marci a Löwem z Erlsfeldu: Myšlení a výuka na pražské lékařské fakultě v době barokní

The book Between Marek Marci and Löw of Erlsfeld is the first monograph treatment on the content of teaching at the Prague Medical Faculty in the Baroque period; the title refers to two significant Czech professors of medicine from that period. The interpretation is framed chronologically from the renewal of the Medical Faculty after the Battle of the White Mountain to the beginning of the rule of Empress Maria Theresa (1740).
The reader firstly learns about the content of medical studies in the post-White Mountain period in Prague and which textbooks were used, including the broader context of contemporary medicine in comparison with faculties abroad. The study then focuses in more detail on some aspects of medical theories in the works of Jan Marek Marci of Kronland, for example on the history of the beginnings of vaccination against smallpox in Central Europe. Another part of the book is a detailed analysis of the interconnections of medical theories with contemporary philosophy. There is also a description of the gradual dissemination of the discovery of blood circulation in Central European medical literature, which provides a good demonstration of how medicine gradually modernized in the Baroque period.
The book rehabilitates a Baroque traditionally interpreted as a 'dark' period by showing how the medical learning of this period in Prague originally developed and how it flourished.