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Maladies and Medicine

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Maladies and Medicine

By Jennifer Evans

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Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humours and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualised. It also explains the hierarchy of healers from university trained physicians, to the itinerant women healers who travelled the country offering cures based on inherited knowledge of homemade remedies. It covers the print...Show more

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9781473875715

Publisher

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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Maladies and Medicine

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Paperback

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