Aa. Vv., “Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature”

Staging the Tyrant on the Seventeenth-Century French Stage

The embodied soul in seventeenth-century French medicine.

While medical historians have noted the continuing importance of the soul in seventeenth-century physiology, it is not generally recognized that there were systematic discussions of the role of the physiological soul even after it was banished from science by Descartes and Malebranche. In this paper I analyze important accounts of it by founding members of the Academie des Sciences who were phy...

Thomas Willis and the fevers literature of the seventeenth century.

WE NEED not take literally the "common Adagy Nemo sine febri moritur," even for seventeenth-century England.' Nor is it likely that Fevers put "a period to the lives of most men".2 Nevertheless, the prevalence and importance of this "sad, comfortless, truculent disease" in those times cannot be doubted. Thomas Willis thought that Fevers had accounted for about a third of the deaths of mankind u...

Some notes on seventeenth-century continental hospitals.

S I R H A N S S L O A N E (1660-1753), the eminent Stuart and Georgian physician, was an avid collector of historical manuscripts, particularly those relating to all branches of medicine and the allied sciences. His collection, an original nucleus of the British Museum, remains one of the most important archives for research into the medical history ot early modern Europe. Even the voluminous d...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.