Author : Michael Ettmueller
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 1703
Category :
ISBN :
Author : C. Harol
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2006-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1403983658
Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.
Author : Maria do Sameiro Barroso
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1527588327
Despite its richness as a potential research field, the history of medicine in Portugal has received relatively little attention outside the country. This book develops some of the understudied themes of Portuguese medical history and delivers them to a wider audience by bringing together the work of a group of international scholars. Here, a unique set of innovative studies begins to uncover details of the lives, medical practice and research of some famous and less well-known Portuguese physicians, the Portuguese response to past pandemics, and analyses of a wide range of items of medical material culture and materia medica. The contributions here elucidate topics as wide-ranging as Graeco-Roman medicine and surgery, the history of spectacles, defence against plague and other epidemics, the history of medicinal emeralds and cinchonine, and echoes of the first female forensic physician in Portugal. This book will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of science, and especially those who enjoy the history of medicine and pharmacy.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN :
Author : Arents Tobacco Collection
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Tobacco
ISBN :
Author : University of Manchester. Library (1904-1972)
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : Export Book Co
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1946
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Bernard Mandeville
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2018-10-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780341750710
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Angus McLaren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000026884
Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume describes a surprising number of rules, regulations, taboos, injunctions, charms and herbal remedies used to affect pregnancy, and shows the extent to which individual women and men were concerned with controlling the size of their families. The fertility levels in England – as in Western Europe as a whole – were a very long way from the biological maximum in these centuries, and the book discusses the various reasons why this was so. The book reviews traditional ideas concerning the relationship between procreation and pleasure, drawn from a range of contemporary sources and discusses ways in which earlier generations sought both to promote and limit fertility. The book also examines abortion and shows how much evidence there is for its actual practice during the period and of traditional views towards it. This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England.
Author : Anne Borsay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1350310867
Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed. A stimulating collection of research-based essays, this book explores and compares the distinct histories of nursing and midwifery in Britain from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the modern day.
