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MALADIES AND MEDICINE : exploring health and healing, 1540-1740.
Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
PEN & SWORD,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE HEAD COMPLAINTS; Chapter 1 Migraine and Headache: A Laborious and Dull Sense; Plates; Chapter 2 Epilepsy: The Sacred Disease; Chapter 3 Palsy: Paralysis or Shaking; Chapter 4 Eye Complaints: Light without Heat; Chapter 5 Toothache: Rotten Worms; PART TWO ABDOMIMAL MALADIES; Chapter 6 Disorderly Bowels: Griping Guts; Chapter 7 Jaundice: Shedding Choler; Chapter 8 Kidney and Bladder Stones: Easing the Passage; PART THREE WHOLE BODY AILMENTS; Chapter 9 Agues: Frequent Fits of Fever; Chapter 10 Cancer: In the Crab's Claws.
- Chapter 11 Diabetes: The Pissing EvilChapter 12 Dropsy: Drowning in Water; Chapter 13 Gout: A Painful Guest; Chapter 14 Irritating Infestations: Rubbing and Scratching; Chapter 15 Pestilential Plague: A Divine Affliction; Chapter 16 Scrofula: The King's Evil; Chapter 17 Scurvy: Scabs, Spots, and Stinking Breath; Chapter 18 Smallpox: Red Pustules and Scarlet Cloth; PART FOUR REPRODUCTIVE MALADIES; Chapter 19 Greensickness: The Virgin's Disease; Chapter 20 The Whites: A Most Troublesome Disease; Chapter 21 Infertility: A Defect in the Seed.
- Chapter 22 False Conceptions and Miscarriages: Breeding MolesChapter 23 Venereal Disease: The French Pox, a New Disease; Afterword; List of Illustrations; Bibliography; Index.