The Gout and The Spider
The Gout and The Spider A few weeks ago I wrote about the stone, the radish and the knife and we considered the ways in which early modern medical practitioners attempted to rationalise and justify...
View ArticlePerceptions of Pregnancy
Next summer myself and Dr Ciara Meehan will be hosting a conference on the perceptions of pregnancy from the medieval period to the modern at the University of Hertfordshire. Here is the call for...
View ArticleNimble Fingers
The anonymously authored Aristotle’s Book of Problems (1710) presented its readers with a series of questions and answers about the body and the natural world.1Some of these questions are very...
View ArticleReview: Old Age and Disease
Today’s post is the second in our series of book reviews. Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine by Daniel Schäfer (Pickering and Chatto, 2011) Schäfer begins Old Age and Disease (after a...
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