Military Expenditure, Spending Capacity and Budget Constraint in Eighteenth-Century Spain and Britain

Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century Britain

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...

Literary responses to animal experimentation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain.

The fact that British men of letters in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries commented on the subject of animal experimentation is well known. Apart from anti-vivisectionists and modern advocates of animal rights, who have been keen to cite the most critical of these responses, ' scholars have considered them in three main areas of research. In the history of ideas some of those literary so...

The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France

the National Foundation and that only in the 1960s, when it began to accept federal funding, was it forced to admit African-American patients and care-givers. In his analysis of the British Polio Fellowship, founded in 1939, which he defines as "an organization of the disabled run by the disabled themselves" (p. 165), Gould points out the frequent tensions between the disabled and the able-bodi...

Medical science, medical practice, and the emerging concept of typhus in mid-eighteenth-century Britain.

IN THE current medical nomenclature of the English-speaking world the term typhus refers to a small group of acute febrile diseases characterized by central nervous system involvement and skin eruptions, caused by rickettsial infection; while in several European languages the word typhus persists as a larger generic term to describe many symptomatically related diseases including typhoid fever....