A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London

A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London
Author: Sir George Norman Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 550
Release: 1964
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199253340

Volume 4 examines the way in which the Royal College of Physicians has adapted to far-reaching changes in medical knowledge, social attitudes and the organization of health. At the same time it illuminates the history of the NHS and examines controversial public issues such as smoking.

The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714

The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714
Author: Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781580460514

Drawing upon a myriad of primary and secondary historical sources, The Royal Doctors: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men (and a handful of women), heretofore unexamined as a group, made up the medical staff of the Tudor and Stuart kings and queens of England (as well as the Lord Protectorships of Oliver and Richard Cromwell). The royal doctors faced enormous challenges in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from diseases that respected no rank and threatened the very security of the realm. Moreover, they had to weather political and religious upheavals that led to regicide and revolution, as well as cope with sharp theoretical and jurisdictional divisions within English medicine. The rulers often interceded in medical controversies at the behest of their royal doctors, bringing sovereign authority to bear on the condition of medicine. Elizabeth Lane Furdell is Professor of History at the University of North Florida.

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Author: Om P. Sharma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Sheila Sherlock was an extraordinary woman, not only for her professional achievements, but also because they were gained against the odds, solely by her own talents and endeavour. In this biography, Om Sharma weaves her personal story into its historical context, picking out detail from both to enhance and enliven the other. Illustrating his material with photos throughout, the author begins with her ill-matched parents, an unhappy union from which her father fled and remained largely absent.. From a single-parent family, then, Sheila emerged a precocious child, who by sheer diligence and discipline became one of the most dazzling medical personalities of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Pharmacopoeia Londinensis

Pharmacopoeia Londinensis
Author: Nicholas Culpeper
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385508992

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: ++++ Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection N011254 Running title: 'The physicians library'. With an index. P.382 misnumbered 482. Numerous editions of this unauthorized translation of the Royal College of Physicians' 'Pharmacopoeia' were published during the seventeenth century, first as 'A physicall directory', 1649, and later, and more commonly, as 'Pharmacopoeia Londinensis'. London: printed for A. and J. Churchil, 1702. [26],482[i.e.382], [24]p.; 12°

RCP 9: Simples and Rarities Suitable and Honourable to the College

RCP 9: Simples and Rarities Suitable and Honourable to the College
Author: Alastair Compston
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1408706393

The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up to 500 reflections on 500 years. Some of the people, ideas, objects and manuscripts featured are directly connected to the College, while others have had an influence that can still be felt in its work. This, the ninth book in the series looks at the libraries and archive of the Royal College.