Medical "publishing societies" in eighteenth-century Britain.

New-born child murder: women, illegitimacy and the courts in eighteenth-century England

subtle, in the process by which the doctor comes to see not the patient but the disease. In the course of her discussion, Lawrence illuminates the changing significance of case history taking-an underexplored subject; the appearance of medical societies and journals in Britain; the evolution of physician/surgeon relationships and approaches to medical knowledge; and the underpinnings of experim...

The conquest of smallpox. The impact of inoculation on smallpox mortality in eighteenth-century Britain

Courtship, sex and poverty: illegitimacy in eighteenth-century Wales

This article sheds new light on illegitimacy in eighteenth-century Britain through an analysis of evidence from 36 parishes across the former Welsh counties Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire. Quantitative analysis of illegitimacy ratios demonstrates that levels were significantly higher in certain, but not all, parts of Wales in the eighteenth century. This evidence is considered in relation to e...

World Trade in Medicinal Plants from Spanish America, 1717–1815

This article outlines the history of the commerce in medicinal plants and plant-based remedies from the Spanish American territories in the eighteenth century. It maps the routes used to transport the plants from Spanish America to Europe and, along the arteries of European commerce, colonialism and proselytism, into societies across the Americas, Asia and Africa. Inquiring into the causes of t...

A provincial surgeon and his obstetric practice: Thomas W. Jones of Henley-in-Arden, 1764-1846.

Recent research has revealed a small but growing quantity of casebooks and personal papers kept by obscure provincial medical practitioners in the eighteenth century, although the survival rate remains disappointingly low when contrasted with other archive sources for the period. We will never know how many Georgian surgeon-apothecaries in an age of low bureaucracy kept case notes on their pati...