Navigating the challenges of moving from research to clinical care: The example of the Teen Online Problem Solving program.

In July 1735, Baroness Massimiliana Moltke wrote from Vienna to Florence to thank Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici (1667–1743), the last Medici princess, for a powder that had cured three noble children of violent convulsions ( [ASF], 6341, fol. 126r). The physicians, the Baroness wrote, had already them; months later, the children remained in perfect health []. This brief epistolary exchange offers a starting point for a narrower question: what did early modern medicine actually do, in practice, when faced with the sudden, reversible episodes of impaired awareness and responsiveness, phenomena that modern neurology would describe as seizure-related alterations of consciousness? This article uses two archival recipes, the [ powder] against the falling sickness and a preparation of amber essence, as a case study in how pre-modern therapeutic practice approached clinical phenomena that today lie at the intersection of epileptology and consciousness science. The remedy’s name is itself linguistically revealing: , [Recipe for making the powder against the , or ] []. Three vernacular terms carry the clinical sense: , .