Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England
Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

Author: Anne Stobart

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-09-08

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1472580370

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How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes? Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century.

Public Understanding of Science
Public Understanding of Science

Author: David Knight

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-10-16

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134625006

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Antique Glass Bottles
Antique Glass Bottles

Author: Willy van den Bossche

Publisher: ACC Distribution

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13:

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A major and comprehensive book on the history and evolution of antique glass bottles between 1500 and 1850. Lavishly illustrated with new specially commissioned colour photography, it also includes the most comprehensive worldwide bibliography on glass bo

Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade
Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade

Author: Robin Myers

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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Leading scholars from different specialities provide glimpses of the interaction betwen science, medicine and the culture of print, and reveal the medical hazards that constantly threatened the health and safety of London printers from the 15th to the 19th century.

The Physician's Art
The Physician's Art

Author: Julie V. Hansen

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Prepared in conjunction with an exhibition at the Duke University Museum of Art (November 1999 -- January 2000), this book showcases 59 pieces from four medical school collections. The (mostly) full-page reproductions feature objects such as surgical tools and ivory manikins, as well as a wide variety of anatomical illustrations; they range from Europe to the Far East and Africa, and from the 15th to the 20th century. The explanatory text is carefully written and, like the audience it will interest, reaches across the disciplines of art, history, and science. Hansen is an art historian researching art and science in 17th-century Amsterdam; Porter is curator of the Duke University Medical Center Library's History of Medicine Collections; and Martin Kemp (who wrote the foreword), is an art historian (Oxford U.) who has written extensively on the relationships between representation in art and science. The book is distributed by Duke U. Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The History and Present State of Virginia
The History and Present State of Virginia

Author: Robert Beverley

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-05-13

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1469607956

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While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.