Bodies in Balance: Santorio’s Legacy in Baglivi’s Medicine

One of the main representatives of iatromechanics, the Croatian physician Giorgio Baglivi (1668–1707) strongly supported and practised Santorio’s principles in his medicine. His Canones de medicina solidorum (1704), a commentary on Santorio’s Medicina statica, was repeatedly printed throughout the eighteenth century. Canones, however, are something completely different from an ordinary line-by-line commentary: Baglivi rather tries to corroborate his views in physiology and pathology by means of an original and new-fashioned interpretation of Santorio’s work.