Author: John WardPublisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Diary of the Rev. John Ward, A. M.
Author: John WardDiary of the Rev. John Ward, A. M.: Vicar of Stratford-Upon-Avon
Author: John WardPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385140498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
With Words and Knives
Author: Lynda PaynePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134770022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. Many procedures, especially those involving surgery, must have proved almost as distressing to the doctor as to the patient. Yet in order to cure, the medical practitioner was often required to inflict pain and the patient to endure it. Some level of detachment has always been required of the doctor and especially, of the surgeon. It is the construction of this detachment, or dispassion, in early modern England, with which this work is concerned. The book explores the idea of medical dispassion and shows how practitioners developed the intellectual, verbal and manual skill of being able to replace passion with equanimity and distance. As the skill of 'dispassion' became more widespread it was both enthusiastically promoted and vehemently attacked by scientific and literary writers throughout the early modern period. To explain why the practice was so controversial and aroused such furor, this study takes into account not only patterns of medical education and clinical practice but wider debates concerning social, philosophical and religious ideas.
Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680
Author: Andrew WearPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine in its social and cultural contexts. The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their understanding of what they were doing. The structures of practice and knowledge examined in the first part of the book came to be challenged in the later seventeenth century, when the 'new science' began to overturn the foundation of established knowledge. However, as the second part of the book shows, traditional medical practice was so well entrenched in English culture that much of it continued into the eighteenth century. Various changes did however occur, which set the agenda for later medical treatment and which are discussed in the final chapter.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Chemistry at Oxford
Author: Robert Joseph Paton WilliamsPublisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 0854041397
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Chemistry, in various ways, has been pursued in Oxford, by Oxford figures and within the wider remit of the University for centuries. This fascinating book provides a history of the development of the Oxford Chemistry School from 1600 to 2008 and shows how the nature of the University and individuals have shaped the school and advanced the subject of chemistry. It is the only complete history of Oxford chemistry in print and chronologically follows the progress of the researchers Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke and the Royal Society groups of the 1650's as well as 18th, 19th and 20th century developments.
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