Author: John HUXHAM (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An Essay on Fevers ... With dissertations on slow nervous fevers; on putrid, pestilential, spotted fevers; on the small-pox; and on pleurisies and peripneumonies
An Essay on Fevers
Author: John HuxhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An essay on fevers and their various kinds, as depending on different constitutions of the blood: with dissertations on slow nervous fevers; on putrid, pestilential, spotted fevers; on the small-pox and on pleurisies and peripneumonies. The second edition
Author: John HUXHAM (M.D.)Famine and Disease in Ireland, vol 5
Author: Leslie ClarksonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351221817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Great Famine of 1845-9 remains the great climacteric in Irish history. This title contains the Fifth and final volume of reprints of contemporary works relating to the Great Famine, including writings on the medical conditions in Ireland at the time gathered from the "Dublin Journal of Medical Science" and similar publications.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
A Singular Remedy
Author: Stefanie GängerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108901662
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Stefanie Gänger explores how medical knowledge was shared across societies tied to the Atlantic World between 1751 and 1820. Centred on Peruvian bark or cinchona, Gänger shows how that remedy and knowledge about its consumption – formulae for bittersweet, 'aromatic' wines, narratives about its discovery or beliefs in its ability to prevent fevers – were understood by men and women in varied contexts. These included Peruvian academies and Scottish households, Louisiana plantations and Moroccan court pharmacies alike. This study in plant trade, therapeutic exchange, and epistemic brokerage shows how knowledge weaves itself into the fabric of everyday medical practice in different places.
The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena
Author: Matti PeikolaPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027260559
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical understanding of these phenomena, covering a wide time span, from Old English to the 20th century, in a range of historical genres and contexts of text production, mediation and consumption. However, more fundamentally, it also seeks to expand our conception of text and the communicative ‘spaces’ surrounding them, and probe the explanatory potential of the concepts under investigation. Though essentially rooted in historical linguistics and philology, the twelve contributions of this volume are also open to insights from other disciplines (such as medieval manuscript studies and bibliography, but also information studies, marketing studies, and even digital electronics), and thus tackle opportunities and challenges in researching the dynamics of text and framing phenomena in a historical perspective.
Difference and Disease
Author: Suman SethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108304850
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers needed to become 'seasoned to the climate'. Suman Seth explores forms of eighteenth-century medical knowledge, including conceptions of seasoning, showing how geographical location was essential to this knowledge and helped to define relationships between Britain and her far-flung colonies. In this period, debates raged between medical practitioners over whether diseases changed in different climes. Different diseases were deemed characteristic of different races and genders, and medical practitioners were thus deeply involved in contestations over race and the legitimacy of the abolitionist cause. In this innovative and engaging history, Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual shaping of medicine, race, and empire.