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No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across multiple scholarly and library catalogs (including UNESCO Index Translationum, Library of Congress, and others) yielded no record of an English translation for 'Theses medicae de dyspnoea' by Philipp Jacob Theodor (1580). Given the nature of this work—a 16th-century medical thesis—it is highly probable that no English translation exists.
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Philipp Jacob Theodor offers a sharp, clinical look at the mechanics of breathlessness as understood in the 16th century. Readers will uncover how early modern physicians categorized respiratory failure and why individual patient care trumped rigid medical recipes.