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Through the biographies of a dynasty of practitioners who were active in some mountainous villages of the Venetian Terraferma the article brings to light unknown aspects of the professional world of surgeons. Their activities were profoundly influenced by the economic and geographic peculiarities of the territory where they lived and worked.

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This page is a summary of: On the Borders: Surgeons and their Activities in the Venetian State (1540–1640), Medical History, December 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2014.72.
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