The midwives of seventeenth-century London

Pious traders in medicine: a German pharmaceutical network in eighteenth-century North America

findings, Evenden dismisses almost completely. These texts, predominantly written by male medical practitioners, are, in her view, of little use to illuminate the world of female birth practice. She argues that male practitioners had hardly any obstetrical practice, and, with regard to the theoretical basis, their treatises present only an untidy mixture of useless Galenic or humoral theory, ma...

Robert Boyle reconsidered

are apt to instill their principles into the mindes of weake persons, and you well know, if your wife got anything into her Head, all the reason in the World will not persuade her out of it." There is much sophisticated analysis to admire that positions midwives into larger historical debates. South German cities, such as Nuremberg, Augsburg and Munich, controlled their midwives through "sworn ...

"Persons that live remote from London": apothecaries and the medical marketplace in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Wales.

This article uses evidence from Welsh apothecary shops as a means to access the mechanisms of the "medical marketplace" in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Wales. As a country physically remote from large urban medical centers, and with few large towns, Wales has often been overlooked in terms of medical commerce. Nevertheless, evidence suggests that Welsh apothecaries participated in broad ...

An Enchanting Witchcraft: Masculinity, Melancholy, and the Pathology of Gaming in Early Modern London

In seeking to illuminate the ways in which inchoate models of addiction emerged alongside the unprecedented popularity of gambling in Stuart London, this paper will explore the intersections between a rudimentary pathology of addiction and transformations in the epistemology of reason, the passions, and humoral psychology in the seventeenth century. By exploring the connections between endogeno...

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...

Anne Stobart, Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 304, £21.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-472-58034-4.