Public Baths and Health in England, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century
Author : Charles F. Mullett
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2013-07
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ISBN : 9781258775131
Author : Charles F. Mullett
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2013-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781258775131
Author : Michael A. Mullett
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Page : pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Charles F. Mullett
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Balneology
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Author : Louise Hill Curth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 900417995X
This book is about medical beliefs and practices for animals in early modern England. Although there are numerous texts on human health, this is the first to focus exclusively on animals during this period. For most academics, the foundation of the London Veterinary College in 1791 marks the beginning of 'modern' veterinary medicine, with the period before unworthy of serious study. In fact, there is ample evidence of how the importance of animals resulted in a highly complex system of both preventative and remedial care. This book is divided into sections which start by 'setting the scene' with an overview of animals in early modern England and the contemporary principles behind health and illness. It moves onto an examination of the medical marketplace and printed literature on animal health care, followed by an in-depth look at preventative and remedial methods. It ends by addressing the question of what impact, if any, new colleges had on veterinary beliefs and practices.
Author : Sophie Vasset
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2024-04-30
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ISBN : 9781526178824
Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns.
Author : Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 1940
Category : English literature
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Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521530613
The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. The authors examine the meanings that were attached to sickness; popular medical beliefs and practices; the diffusion of popular medical knowledge; and the relations between patients and their doctors (both professional and 'fringe') seen from the patients' point of view. This is an important work, for illness and death dominated life in earlier societies to an enormous degree. Yet almost no studies of this kind have ever been carried out before, practically all previous treatments having been written from the traditional point of view of the doctor, the hospital, or medical science. It will accordingly interest a wide range of readers interested in social history as well as the history of medicine itself.
Author : William Augustus Guy
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Communicable diseases
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Author : Peter Borsay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1317899741
The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the histroy of towns. This book gathers together in one volume some of the most interesting and important articles that have appeared in research journals to provide a rich variety of perspectives on urban evelopment in the period.
Author : David Charles Douglas
Publisher :
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :