Translating Surgery and Alchemy between Seventeenth-Century Europe and Siam

Archives of the scientific revolution: the formation and exchange of ideas in seventeenth-century Europe

most of this is by German doctors idealizing Paracelsus as a forerunner of their own practices. Heinz Schott takes this further by arguing that the occult and religious content of Paracelsus's writings is reflected in modern psychosomatic medicine. By contrast, Herbert Breger focuses on leading "Paracelsians" of the seventeenth century and suggests that their willingness to identify with a Para...

Germany and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis

and socio-political aspects. Secondly, few explanations of the crisis take account of evidence from the local and regional levels. Thirdly and most seriously, theories of the crisis have ignored Germany, while historians of Germany have ignored the crisis debate. This article seeks tojill these gaps. It puts Germany at the centre of a comprehensive theory of the crisis that takes existing crisi...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.

Medicine in seventeenth century England

ALLEN G. DEBUS (editor), Medicine in seventeenth century England, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiii, 485, illus., £8.50. Reviewed by Kenneth Dewhurst, D.Phil., M.Litt., F.R.C.Psych., The Manor House, Sandford-onThames, Oxford 0X4 4YN. A symposium has some merits but more disadvantages, and this collection of papers in honour of the late C. D. ...

The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...