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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Culpeper's Directory for Midwives: Or, A Guide for Women, the Second Part. Discovering, 1. The Diseases in the Privities of Women. 2. The Diseases of the Privie Part. 3. The Diseases of the Womb. 4. The Symptoms of the Womb. 5. The Symptoms in the Terms. 6. The Symptoms that Befal All Virgins ... 7. The Symptoms which are in Conception. 8. The Government of Women with Child. 9. The Symptoms that Happen in Childbearing. 10. The Government of Women in Child-bed ... 11. The Diseases of the Breasts. 12. The Symptoms of the Breasts. 13. The Diet and Government of Infants. 14. The Diseases and Symptoms in Children
Author: Culpeper's Directory for Midwives: Or, a Guide for Women. The Second Part
Author: Nicholas CulpeperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England
Author: Kaara L. PetersonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317078225
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England's significant and sustained interest in the hysterical diseases of women. Kaara L. Peterson assembles a fascinating collection of medical materials to support her discussion of contemporary debates about varieties of uterine pathologies and the implications of these debates for our understanding of drama's representation of hysterica passio cases in particular, among other hysterical maladies. An important aspect of the author's approach is to restore, with all its nuances, the debates created by early modern medical writers over attempts to define the boundaries and resonances of hysterical ailments, which Peterson argues have been largely erased or elided by historicist criticism, including scholarship overly focused on melancholy. One of the main goals of the book is to stress the centrality of gendered concepts of disease for the period and to reveal a whole catalog of early modern literary strategies for representing women's illnesses. Among the medical works discussed are Edward Jorden's central text A Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) and contemporary plays, including Shakespeare's Pericles, Othello, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale; Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; and Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Author: Nicholas CulpeperPublisher:
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Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England
Author: S. ReadPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137355034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories.
Observations On Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating The Origin Of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, And Superstitiones
Author: John BrandA directory for midwives: or, A guide for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children, etc
Author: Nicholas CulpeperAphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
Author: Jennifer EvansPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0861933249
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.
Vernacular Bodies
Author: Mary E. FissellPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191533564
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a wealth of popular sources - ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, Prayer Books, popular medical manuals - to produce the first account of women's reproductive bodies in early-modern cheap print. Since little was certain about the mysteries of reproduction, the topic lent itself to a rich array of theories. The insides of women's reproductive bodies provided a kind of open interpretive space, a place where many different models of reproductive processes might be plausible. These models were profoundly shaped by cultural concerns; they afforded many ways to discuss and make sense of social, political, and economic changes such as the Protestant Reformation and the Civil War. They gave ordinary people ways of thinking about the changing relations between men and women that characterized these larger social shifts. Fissell offers a new way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women's bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power. Where other histories of the body have focused on learned texts and male bodies, this study looks at the small books and pamphlets that ordinary people read and listened to - and provides new ways to understand how such people experienced political conflicts and social change.
Ill Composed
Author: Olivia WeisserPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213476
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical texts, and devotional literature, the author enters the sickrooms of a diverse sampling of early modern Britons. The resulting stories of sickness reveal how men and women of the era viewed and managed their health both similarly and differently, as well as the ways prevailing religious practices, medical knowledge, writing conventions, and everyday life created and supported those varying perceptions. A unique cultural history of illness, Weisser’s groundbreaking study bridges the fields of patient history and gender history. Based on the detailed examination of over fifty firsthand accounts, this fascinating volume offers unprecedented insight into what it was like to live, suffer, and inhabit a body more than three centuries ago.