Author: Sir William ReadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eye
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
“A” Short But Exact Account of All the Diseases Incident to the Eyes, with the Causes, Symptoms, and Cures ...
Author: Sir William ReadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eye
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians
Author: Dr Keith SouterPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752478079
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The Victorians had a thirst for knowledge. This drove them to explore the unchartered corners of the world, plumb the unfathomable depths of science, discover evolution and create some of the engineering and architectural marvels of the world. Yet this open-mindedness also at times made them utterly gullible. Because of their closeness to disease and the ever-present threat of their own mortality, it was inevitable that they would be open to the claims of quacks who promised all kinds of panaceas, and to mediums who offered a means of communicating with the dead. So too did it make them eager for diversion and entertainment by the conjurers and illusionists of the great music halls. Strangely, it was through the magic-making skill of the conjurers that the activities of many of the tricksters and fraudulent mediums finally came to be exposed. Medical Meddlers, Mediums & Magicians is a box of delights for all students of Victoriana.
The Tatler
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons in London
Author: Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons in London
Author: Royal College of Surgeons of England. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Sight Correction
Author: Chris MounseyPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813943337
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blindness in eighteenth-century Britain, developing a new methodology for conceptualizing sight impairment. Beginning with a reconsideration of the place of sight correction as both idea and reality in eighteenth-century philosophical debates, Chris Mounsey traces the development of eye surgery by pioneers such as William Read, Mary Cater, and John Taylor, who developed a new idea of medical specialism that has shaped contemporary practices. He then turns to accounts by the visually impaired themselves, exploring how Thomas Gills, John Maxwell, and Priscilla Pointon deployed literature strategically as a necessary response to the inadequacies of Poor Laws to support blind people. Situating blindness philosophically, medically, and economically in the eighteenth century, Sight Correction shows how the lives of both the blind and those who sought to treat them redefined blindness in ways that continue to inform our understanding today.
The Tatler
Author: Alexander ChalmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Tatler
Author: Richard SteelePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108078281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
A four-volume edition (1797) of Richard Steele's famous periodical of news and gossip, first published 1709-11.
A Catalogue of the Library ...
Author: Studies in the History of Ophthalmology in England Prior to 1800
Author: R. Rutson JamesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107625491
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Originally published in 1933, this book presents a historical study of ophthalmology in Britain from its earliest phases during the Roman period up until the end of the eighteenth century. Numerous illustrative figures, detailed textual notes and an appendix section are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ophthalmology and its history.