The Dying and the Doctors – The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth–Century Engla…
The Dying and the DoctorsThe Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England\nAuthor(s): Ian Mortimer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Royal Historical Society\nISBN-13: 9780861933020, 978-0861933020\nSynopsis\nA survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period.\n\nFrom the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early eighteenth century. It is this profound revolution, in both medical and religious terms, as whole communities' hopes for physical survival shifted from God to the doctor, that this book charts. Drawing on more than eighteen thousand probate accounts, it identifies massive increases in the consumption of medicines and medical advice by all social groups and in almost all areas. Most importantly,.
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