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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Bodies of Knowledge in the Late Renaissance -- 1 Following Galen to Find the Seats and Causes of Disease -- 2 Disease Displayed in Private, Public, and Clinical Anatomies -- 3 Reconstructing Intellectual Microcosms -- 4 Pedagogy and Practices -- 5 Making Medicines from Books, Gardens, and Chymistry -- 6 Experience, Empiricism, and Experiment -- 7 Plan of Chapters -- 1. Contexts for the Medical Curriculum -- 1 Medicine for a Young Republic in the 1575 Founding -- 2 University, City, State -- 3 The Harvest of Trials from Earlier Sixteenth-Century Academic Medicine -- 4 Experience and Experiment in Early Leiden Mixed Mathematics and Engineering -- 5 The Humanist, Practical Education of Medical Professors -- 6 Early Medical Curricula -- 7 Conclusions -- 2. Ideals of Learning and Reading -- 1 Ideals of Curing Bodies by Reason and Experience -- 2 The Virtues of Disputation for Learning and Exams -- 3 Study Guides for Sharpening the Ingenium (Wit) of the Brain -- 4 Student Life and the Vices of Embodied Learners -- 5 Conclusions -- 3. Lecturing about Philosophical Bodies -- 1 Core Philosophy and Theory -- 2 Basic Principles vs. Hope for Certainty -- 3 Galen on Faculties, Matter, and Souls -- 4 Galen among Ancient Sources on "Powers" or Faculties -- 5 Early Modern Medical Discussions of Faculties -- 6 Conclusions -- 4. Learning to Make Medicines: Reading, Viewing, Tasting, and Testing -- 1 Fire and Transmutation -- 2 Chymical Teaching in the Lecture Hall -- 3 Cultivating Knowledge and Medicinal Simples in the Garden -- 4 Naturalists Knowing Plants by Experience and Experiment -- 5 God's Medicines and Models of Making Trials -- 6 Galen's Models for Knowing Drugs and Making Trials -- 7 Medieval and Early Modern Debates over Sensing and Knowing Medicinal Faculties.