Thomas Higgons’s “The Dismal Tempest”: an unpublished seventeenth-century play fragment

Thomas Willis and the fevers literature of the seventeenth century.

WE NEED not take literally the "common Adagy Nemo sine febri moritur," even for seventeenth-century England.' Nor is it likely that Fevers put "a period to the lives of most men".2 Nevertheless, the prevalence and importance of this "sad, comfortless, truculent disease" in those times cannot be doubted. Thomas Willis thought that Fevers had accounted for about a third of the deaths of mankind u...

Leiden University in the seventeenth century. An exchange of learning

Th. H. LUNSINGH SCHEURLEER and G. H. M. POSTHUMUS MEYJES (editors), Leiden University in the seventeenth century. An exchange of learning, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975, fo, pp. viii, 496, illus., DFI. 175. In the history of medicine we judge the University of Leiden to be the most outstanding centre for medical education during the early decades of the eighteenth century. It is usually forgotten, ...

The medical revolution of the seventeenth century

Taking the other tack, Richard Palmer explores the story of the papal physicians, a subject "killed ... stone dead" by the erudition of Prospero Mandosio (1696) until resurrected by Palmer with his witty and pithy observations. The turn-of-the-seventeenth-century German Prince, Maurice of Hesse-Kassel, took a direct interest in the medical details of his court and country, which Bruce Moran exp...

European science in the seventeenth century

Dr. Knight has written an excellent book that will prove invaluable as an introductory explanation of science for a wide audience, but especially for the younger person entering this discipline. It will also be a useful text for those interested in the history of science and medicine. It is very well written and does not demand of the reader much previous knowledge of science. It richly deserve...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.