Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe 1500–1700

Most are to be found in the chronology; where, p. 316, Diocles is credited with the first Green Herbal (read "Greek anatomy"); plague in Britain ends in 1392; and syphilis breaks out in 1490. The decision to insert all entries referring to a century at the head of entries for that century, and to place individuals by their date of birth results in some curious juxtapositions. Misprints are commendably few: I enjoyed quaiacam, p. 342, and the index is reasonably accurate.