N. Middelkoop, Kopstukken. Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800

London's immigrant apothecaries, 1600-1800.

Tim topics chosen by former Monckton Copeman lecturers on the relations between the City of London and Medicine have been wide and varied. The present subject is the apothecaries who came to this country and especially to London, many of them as refugees, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their place in pharmacy. Long before the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572, refugees f...

"Meter in Music, 1600-1800" By George Houle

Transports: travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600–1800

human shape. But upon the middle of the body a fire of coals was smouldering; the flesh had been burnt through. The man was dead, but the smoke of his torment mounted still, a black vapour." In detective fiction, W H Auden said, the corpse must shock "not only because it is a corpse, but also because, even for a corpse, it is shockingly out of place, as when a dog makes a mess on a drawing-room...

Medics, Monarchs and Mortality, 1600-1800: Origins of the Knowledge-driven Health Transition in Europe

Medical knowledge – defined broadly to include both its private and public forms – has been the driving force behind the historical transitions that have raised life expectancy in modern Europe. Advances in knowledge, rather than better nutrition (particularly the escape from caloric insufficiency) deserve greater emphasis because the very first groups to undergo anything recognizable as a secu...

Lunatics and idiots: mental disability, the community, and the poor law in North-East England, 1600-1800.

Despite recent advances in the history of madness, we still know little of the mad themselves. This "silence at the centre" of the subject might be due to over-reliance on printed sources or institutional records (especially of famous institutions such as Bethlem or the Retreat), both of which may be unrepresentative.' More fairly, the absence is probably due to the acute difficulties inherent ...