SURGEON , APOTHECARY 17190 GROOMGRIDCE , JOHN ROBINSON , EOWARD POYRATZ , ROBERT WILDER , GERVAS ROBINSON , ELIGA ROBINSON , JONN ROBINSON , JONN EDENSOR , JOHN FOGG , ENRY 21-5-1785 21-10-1719 16-6-1735 JU - 7-1717 30-7-1712 JO ...
A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.
Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture.
This book addresses this deficiency through exploring in detail what Casanova wrote on a variety of conditions that include venereal disease and female complaints, duelling injuries, suicide, skin complaints and stroke and even piles.
Pre-modern society was overshadowed by illness and the threat of death. This outstanding new book examines what people did when they fell sick in Britain between 1650 - 1850.
'Medical Revolutionaries' highlights how slave healers inspired the Haitian Revolution, toppled the slave system, and led to the loss of France's most productive New World economy.
This is followed by a background section of essays on (a) brain and mind in the long 18th century, (b) the role of microscopes and microscopy in this period, (c) the nature of 18th century medical education and the place of voluntary ...
Various writers of that age, as well as a number of historians since, have conveyed the sense that practice was chaotic. On the contrary, what this book argues is that methods used to treat diseases were fairly standard.
Written by leading historians of medicine and eighteenth-century literary critics, this book uncovers the interconnections between medical and psychological theory and ideas of taste, beauty, and genius by paying special attention to ...
In Merchants of Medicines, Zachary Dorner follows the earliest industrial pharmaceuticals from their manufacture in the United Kingdom, across trade routes, and to the edges of empire, telling a story of what medicines were, what they did, ...
Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we use to describe our own bodies--male and female, healthy or sick--are cultural constructions.