London Medical Societies in the Eighteenth Century

Medical "publishing societies" in eighteenth-century Britain.

This article reviews the relationship between medical journals and publishing societies in eighteenth-century Great Britain. The importance of the perception that these journals were being issued under the auspices of societies is revealed by the number of times this kind of sponsorship was invoked by new medical journals. This kind of endorsement was projected even when a society so designated...

The case of the British inquisition: money and women in mid-eighteenth-century London debating societies.

Philanthropy and police: London charity in the eighteenth century

on the passions and errors of the soul, published in 1525. Such criticisms, however, do not detract from the main value of this book as a clear exposition in English of interesting and, in their own day, influential theories of the emotions. First of all, we want to compliment Dr Paul Maquet from Belgium for this highly accomplished translation of a difficult text. "latrophysics" is a concept i...

Educating the senses: students, teachers and medical rhetoric in eighteenth-century London

Medical Bristol in the Eighteenth Century

Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary.