The Dying and the Doctors: The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England

by Ian Mortimer

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A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period.

From 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'...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0861933265

ISBN13:9780861933266

Release Date:February 2015

Publisher:Royal Historical Society

Length:246 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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