Medicine & Physic
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This was the first book on pediatrics ever written by an Englishman, and also one of the earliest medical books to be printed in the English language.
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"Very merry, and very pleasant, and good to be read of all such as doe delight in new and merry Conceits. Newly inlarged, corrected and amended.&# 34; Various folk remedies and instructio ns on how to do things such as keeping dogs from barking, catching various animals, practical jokes, and so forth.
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Within this manuscript, the reader will find the wit, intellect, ethic and conviction of a man maligned by his colleagues and much respected by his community. Culpeper worked to bring medicinal treatments from the mysterious to the comprehensible. His philosophy was to teach the common folk to minister to themselves by providing them with the tools and knowledge for self health. His mind and ambition was to reform the whole system of medicine by being an innovative questioner paving the way for new thoughts and principles contrary to established traditions.
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Though he was not a physician, Sir John Harington wrote a loose translatio n of the Regimen Sanitatis Salernitan um, the Medical Poem of Salerno, into English verse.
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Includes an article on later Tudor-era medicine.
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Article by Lesley Smith in the "Journal of Family Planning and Reproducti ve Health Care" 32(4);265- 266, discussing the history of syphilis.
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A translation of Pliny's Natural History.
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We want to trace the relationsh ips between the developmen t of universiti es and the profession alization of medical practice. I shall focus on the first phase of this lengthy process, largely the period between 1200 and 1400.
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Bound together in this volume are the Tractatus de Magnetate et Operationi bus eius (the 13th century letter on the magnet by Petrus Peregrinus ); a university handbook on the theory of numbers, proportion s and harmony; the seven signs of bad breeding; the seven signs of elegance; and household and medical recipes. Included is one of the oldest known surviving English mead recipes. The recipes from this manuscript have been transcribe d and can be viewed at this site.
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Medical section of a book written in central Europe in about 1420-30 (Wellcome Western MS.49). Each page has a brief description of the content, in English.
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Listings: 68 (81 counting subcategories)
Regular: 68
Last listing added: 12/10/10