A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to be Used to Prevent It. By Richard Mead, ... The Second Dublin Edition

A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to be Used to Prevent It. By Richard Mead, ... The Second Dublin Edition
Author: Richard Mead
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2018-04-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781379560999

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T132089 Dublin: re-printed by and for George Grierson, 1721. [4],40p.; 8°

A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It. by Richard Mead, ... the Fourth Edition

A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It. by Richard Mead, ... the Fourth Edition
Author: RICHARD. MEAD
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2018-04-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385258972

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Houghton Library N023479 Dublin: re-printed by and for George Grierson, 1720. [4],40p.; 8°

Difference and Disease

Difference and Disease
Author: Suman Seth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1108304850

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.