Author: Thomas ApperleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Observations in Physick, Both Rational and Practical
Author: Thomas ApperleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Bernard Mandeville: A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730)
Author: Sylvie Kleiman-LafonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319577816
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider organisation of society. First published in 1711, revised and enlarged in 1730, and now edited and published with a critical apparatus for the first time, this is a major work in the history of medical literature as well as a complex literary creation. Composed of three dialogues between a physician and two of his patients, Mandeville’s Treatise mirrors the digressive structure of a talking cure. Thanks to the soothing and enlightening effects of this casual conversation, the physician Mandeville demonstrates the healing power of words for a class of patients that he presents as men of learning who need above all to be addressed in their own language. Mandeville’s aim was to delineate his own cure for hypochondria and hysteria, which consisted of a talking cure followed by diet and exercise, but also to discuss the practice of medicine in England and continental Europe at a time when physicians were beginning to lose ground to apothecaries. Opposing a purely theoretical approach to medicine, Mandeville takes up the principles presented by Francis Bacon, Thomas Sydenham, and Giorgio Baglivi, and advocates a medical practice based on experience and backed up by time-tested theories.
The Present State of the Republick of Letters. ...
Author: The Germ of an Idea
Author: Margaret DeLacyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137575298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation. It shows how ideas about contagion changed medicine and the understanding of acute diseases.
Praelectiones academicae in proprias institutiones rei medicae. Dr. Boerhaave's Academical Lectures on the Theory of Physic. Being a ... translation of his Institutes and explanatory comment, etc
Author: Herman BOERHAAVEA Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Contagionism Catches On
Author: Margaret DeLacyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319509594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionalists, who attributed acute diseases to the interaction of internal imbalances with external factors such as weather, and reformers, who blamed contagious pathogens. The reformers, who were often “outsiders,” English Nonconformists or men born outside England, emerged from three coincidental transformations: transformation in medical ideas, in the nature and content of medical education, and in the sort of men who became physicians. Adopting contagionism led them to see acute diseases as separate entities, spurring a process that reoriented medical research, changed communities, established new medical institutions, and continues to the present day.
My Life and Times
Author: NimrodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Decline of Life
Author: Susannah R. OttawayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139451642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Decline of Life is an ambitious and absorbing study of old age in eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a wealth of sources - literature, correspondence, poor house and workhouse documents and diaries - Susannah Ottaway considers a wide range of experiences and expectations of age in the period, and demonstrates that the central concern of ageing individuals was to continue to live as independently as possible into their last days. Ageing men and women stayed closely connected to their families and communities, in relationships characterized by mutual support and reciprocal obligations. Despite these aspects of continuity, however, older individuals' ability to maintain their autonomy, and the nature of the support available to them once they did fall into necessity declined significantly in the last decades of the century. As a result, old age was increasingly marginalized. Historical demographers, historical gerontologists, sociologists, social historians and women's historians will find this book essential reading.
A Catalogue of the Medical Library at the Infirmary, etc
Author: Infirmary for the Sick and Lame Poor of the Counties of Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, and NorthumberlandPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description