Bound and Filed: A Seventeenth-Century Service Indenture from a Scattered Archive

A Dialectic of Seventeenth-Century High Culture

The “New Science” of Galileo, Kepler, Harvey, Descartes, Boyle, Steno, etc., and the Baroque in visual arts and literature, are two conspicuous aspects of seventeenth-century European elite culture. If standard historiography of science can be relied upon, the former of the two was not affected by the latter. The lecture asks whether this is a “fact of history” or an artefact of historiography....

A trial of witches: a seventeenth-century witchcraft prosecution

also how the teachers were far from being mere theorists but were concerned also with the consequences of their interpretations for medical practice. When these lectures were delivered is difficult to decide, for there are hints both for and against a date around 550. While the commentary on On the nature of the child is edited from the single surviving manuscript, the other two have a much mor...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.

A seventeenth-century German barber-surgeon and his patients.

PATIENTS AND HEALERS In recent years some attempts have been made to break away from a physiciancentred view of medical history and to establish as a counterweight a patient-oriented history or, more precisely, "a sick people's or sufferer's history (for the very word 'patient' seems dangerously redolent of professional medical relations)",' as Roy Porter, one of the protagonists of this kind o...

Medicine in seventeenth century England

ALLEN G. DEBUS (editor), Medicine in seventeenth century England, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiii, 485, illus., £8.50. Reviewed by Kenneth Dewhurst, D.Phil., M.Litt., F.R.C.Psych., The Manor House, Sandford-onThames, Oxford 0X4 4YN. A symposium has some merits but more disadvantages, and this collection of papers in honour of the late C. D. ...