The dying and the doctors : the medical revolution in seventeenth-century England /

A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period. From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the...

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Main Author: Mortimer, Ian, 1967-
Corporate Author: Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 2009.
Series:Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The medicalisation of East Kent
  • The medicalisation of central southern England
  • The availability and nature of medical assistance
  • Medical practices
  • The nature and availability of nursing care
  • Plague and smallpox.