5 -- Families, Dedicatees and Printers: Networking outside the University

Information travels. Carefully widening the circles of personal connections, we find our students take part in family gatherings, and marry into even more wide-spread family ties. In the dedications of their disputations they often praised friends, tutorial promoters, but also aquainted political figures in courts and city governments. We find them already as students collaborate on Festschriften for compatriots at academia. Their personal connections brought them friends and enemies, stability and security, but also challenge and sometimes death. What is the relevance of these networks for the making of medical information?