Author: Richard MeadPublisher:
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to be Used to Prevent It. By Richard Mead, M.D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society
Author: Richard MeadPublisher:
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion
Author: Richard MeadA treatise on plague dealing with the historical, epidemiological
Author: William John Ritchie SimpsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A Treatise on Plague Dealing with the Historical, Epidemiological, Clinical, Therapeutic and Preventive Aspects of the Disease
Author: Sir William John SimpsonPublisher:
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Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835
Author: Tristanne ConnollyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.
When the "Dead" Rose in Britain
Author: Nicole C. SalomonePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476646198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Through a detailed and fascinating exploration of changing medical knowledge and practice, this book provides a timeline of humankind's understanding of physiological death. Anchored in Early Modern Britain, it explains how evolving medical theories challenged the ambiguous definition of death, instigating anxieties over the newly realized potential for officials to mistake a person's time of death. Fears of premature burials were materialized as newspapers across Europe printed hundreds of articles about people who had been misdiagnosed as dead and were then buried--or nearly buried--alive. These stories, tallied in this text, present the first contemporary statistic of how frequently misdiagnosed death led to premature burial during the eighteenth century. The public consciousness of premature burial manifested itself in many ways, including the necessity of having a wake before a funeral and the creation of safety coffins. This book also explores the folkloric phenomenon of the rising dead and the stories that inspired a number of authors including Coleridge, Byron and Stoker, who blended medical understanding with fiction to create vampire literature.
Catalogue of the Books & Manuscripts Comprising the Library of the Late Sir John T. Gilbert
Author: Dublin Public LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to be Used to Prevent it
Author: Richard MeadPublisher:
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 5
Author: W R OwensPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040250629
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This volume reveals the extraordinary range of Daniel Defoe's intellectual interests. Three volumes are devoted to major historical writings by Defoe. His "Memoirs of the Church of Scotland" and "History of the Union of Great Britain" are included here.
Author: William A'Beckett