MEDICINE IN VIRGINIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

The President introduced his remarks by a short survey of the social and economic conditions in Bristol in the middle of the eighteenth century, with acknowledgments to Latimer's Annals of Bristol in the eighteenth century, Munro Smith's History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and other sources. He quoted from English Social History: " Good doctoring rather than better social conditions was the...

Eighteenth Century Medicine in America

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...

The philosophy of medicine. The early eighteenth century

By title, Lester King's latest book would appear to complement a work which he published in 1970, The road to medical enlightenment, 1650-1695. In that earlier monograph he examined a number of seventeenth-century physicians and scientists-Boyle, van Helmont, Sydenham, Sylvius, Hooke-whose philosophies were seen to culminate in the eclectic synthesis of Friedrich Hoffmann. Although he never exp...

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

This fine volume of essays on the nobility in the later eighteenth century is a most welcome addition to the existing literature. It comprises eleven essays by American historians whose research engages with the concept of nobility. The collection issues from a conference in 2004 and reflects the cultural turn in historiography that has such sway, particularly in America. There is a stimulating...