Dr Sydenham's Compleat Method of Curing Almost All Diseases, and Description of Their Symptoms to Which Are Now Added, Five Discourses of the Same Author Abridg'd and Faithfully Translated Out of the Original Latin

Dr Sydenham's Compleat Method of Curing Almost All Diseases, and Description of Their Symptoms to Which Are Now Added, Five Discourses of the Same Author Abridg'd and Faithfully Translated Out of the Original Latin
Author: Thomas Sydenham
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2018-04-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385769171

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: ++++ William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA) N028275 With a final advertisement leaf. A re-issue of the pirated translation of 'Processus integri', based on the first edition, with additional selections from Sydenham's other works (Meynell). London: printed for Tho. Horne, and Rich. Parker, 1710. [12],202, [2]p.; 12°

The Birth of the Clinic

The Birth of the Clinic
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134955391

Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.

Madness and Civilization

Madness and Civilization
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307833100

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Hysteria Beyond Freud

Hysteria Beyond Freud
Author: Sander L. Gilman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2024-03-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0520309936

"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.