Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Book).

Controlling corruption: regulating meat consumption as a preventative to plague in seventeenth-century London

Seventeenth-century medical theory saw epidemic diseases like the plague as being caused by stinking miasmas resulting from putrefying matter polluting the air. The butchers’ trade was singled out in London as a major polluter, implicated in both the regulatory literature and popular images as corrupting both the physical and moral health of the City and its citizens. Controlling the food trade...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.

European science in the seventeenth century

Dr. Knight has written an excellent book that will prove invaluable as an introductory explanation of science for a wide audience, but especially for the younger person entering this discipline. It will also be a useful text for those interested in the history of science and medicine. It is very well written and does not demand of the reader much previous knowledge of science. It richly deserve...

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. ...

English medicine in the seventeenth century

other persons who are mentioned because at some time something has been named after them. Historians may hope that future editions will not prune too much on the ground of obsolescence. Manifestly there is no outright "best buy": Firkin & Whitworth contain material not to be found elsewhere, and similarly much that they do not cover is available elsewhere. All depends on what you seek. They can...