“No chronicle records his fellow”: Reading <i>Perkin Warbeck</i> in the Early Seventeenth Century

A seventeenth-century German barber-surgeon and his patients.

PATIENTS AND HEALERS In recent years some attempts have been made to break away from a physiciancentred view of medical history and to establish as a counterweight a patient-oriented history or, more precisely, "a sick people's or sufferer's history (for the very word 'patient' seems dangerously redolent of professional medical relations)",' as Roy Porter, one of the protagonists of this kind o...

The Chronicle of Arsenic Poisoning in the 19th Century

English Medical Licensing in the Early Seventeenth Century

In the middle ages when every craft had its gild with an elaborate organization and code of conduct, medicine was singularly lacking in any such control and its members lacked a corporate spirit or feeling of group consciousness. Moreover physicians had no control except that which the universities provided as part of their training. In this respect medicine was unlike tihe Church and the legal...

Chronicle of Datura Toxicity in the 18th and 19th Century

Background: Datura stramonium is a poisonous and common flowering plant that is a member of the Solanacae family. Datura poisonings are a rare occurrence in the 21st century, making toxicological information on this plant sparse. Historical information on Datura provides useful information on the clinical symptoms and characteristics of poisonings. This review looks at the state of knowledge on...

From the Seventeenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century: the Emergence of Social Policy in Ireland

This chapter sketches the key features of the emergence of social policy in Ireland. This spans early state and charitable activity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through to the more extensive social policy measures and provisions which emerged during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before Ireland gained independence in 1921. The chapter documents the themes of care ...