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'All manner of ingenuity and industry'
Author | : Alastair Compston |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2021-08-02 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0192514776 |
This book celebrates the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis on 27 January 1621. As a physician in Oxford, Willis's work in the 1650s provides an example of rural medical practice in early modern England. As a member of the Oxford Philosophical Club that met from the 1640s, he was central to the move from classical scholasticism to accounts of anatomy and physiology based on observation and experiment. As Sedleian professor of natural philosophy in Oxford, the surviving records of his lectures from the 1660s provide an example of pedagogy in medicine at that time. And, after moving to London in 1667, Willis continued to interact with a community of scientists and physicians who transformed ideas on respiration, muscular movement and the nervous system. Despite a busy clinical practice, Willis found time to write extensively on anatomy and physiology, clinical medicine and therapeutics. These contributions are recognized as wise, original and influential. Between 1659 and 1675, Willis published fourteen treatises. These appeared in six published works, one in two parts, written in Latin. Four of the titles contain engraved plates depicting the brain, muscle, lungs and stomach. The illustrators were Christopher Wren, Richard Lower, Edmund King and possibly Willis himself. Soon after his death, the treatises were published as collected works, also in Latin. Starting in 1679, his writings were translated into English and published as Dr Willis's practice of physic, eventually completed in 1684. The eighteen chapters of this bio-bibliography are in four sections: chapter 1 is biographical; chapters 2 - 4 describe aspects of the history of the book and illustration relevant to Willis's printed works; chapters 5 - 14 provide bibliographical details of Willis's treatises contained in 102 copies printed in Latin, English, Dutch and French between 1659 and 1721; and chapters 15 - 18 summarise the content of Willis's works and their contribution to medical science.
The London Practice of Physick
Author | : Thomas Willis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History of medicine |
ISBN | : |
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
Author | : Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Medical libraries |
ISBN | : |
A History of Limb Amputation
Author | : John R. Kirkup |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2007-05-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1846285097 |
This book opens with a unique historical review of natural amputations due to congenital absence, disease, frostbite, animal trauma, and to punishment and ritual. The advent of surgical amputation and its difficulties form a major part of the book, summarising the evolution of the control of haemorrhage and infection, pain relief, techniques, instrumentation, complications, prostheses, results and case histories. Alternative procedures, increasingly important in the last two centuries, are also debated.
Maladies & Medicine
Author | : Jennifer Evans |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1473875730 |
A lively account of medical practices in early modern England: “Superb . . . an essential piece of social history.” —Books Monthly It was an era when tooth cavities were thought to be caused by tiny worms and smallpox by an inflammation of the blood, and cures ranged from herbal potions, cooling cordials, blistering the skin, and of course letting blood. Maladies and Medicine tells the story of how the body was understood before the major advances of modern medicine, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the hierarchy of healers, from university-trained physicians to the women who traveled the country offering cures based on inherited knowledge of homemade remedies, as well as the print explosion of medical health guides, which began to appear in the sixteenth century, from more academic medical textbooks to cheap almanacs. In twenty chapters discussing attitudes toward, and explanations of, some of the most common diseases and medical conditions of the period, the book reveals the ways people understood them and the steps they took to get better. It examines the body from head to toe, from migraines to gout. Case studies and personal anecdotes taken from doctors’ notes, personal journals, diaries, letters, and even court records show the reactions of individuals to their illnesses and treatments, bringing us into close proximity with people who lived roughly four centuries ago. This richly illustrated study will fascinate those curious about the history of the body and the way our ancestors lived.
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 Allibone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Catalogue Raisonné of the Medical Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Author | : Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Hospital libraries |
ISBN | : |
Loath to Print
Author | : Nicole Howard |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1421443686 |
"The author explains that scientists had many concerns about putting their work into print when the printing press made that possible. This book explores both their attitudes and their strategies for navigating the publishing world"--
The Realms of Apollo
Author | : Raymond A. Anselment |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780874135534 |
"In The Realms of Apollo, literary scholar Raymond A. Anselment examines how seventeenth-century English authors confronted the physical and psychological realities of death." "Focusing on the dangers of childbirth and the terrors of bubonic plague, venereal disease, and smallpox, the book reveals in the discourse of literary and medical texts the meanings of sickness and death in both the daily life and culture of seventeenth-century England. These perspectives show each realm anew as the domain of Apollo, the deity widely celebrated in myth as the god of poetry and the god of medicine. Authors of both formal elegies and simple broadsides saw themselves as healers who tried to find in language the solace physicians could not find in medicine. Within the context of the suffering so unmistakable in the medical treatises and in the personal diaries, memoirs, and letters, the poets' struggles illuminate a new cultural consciousness of sickness and death."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved