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Medicine musica: the eighteenth-century rationalization of music and medicine
Daisy FancourtLondon, United Kingdom Legends of music’s healing powers on both the mind and the body are estimated to go as far back as Paleolithic times, when music was believed to be a magic that could drive away the angry spirits that caused illness.1 It wasn’t until the beginnings of learned medicine in the Greek-Roman,…