The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century
Contributors: Roger French (Editor); Andrew Wear (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 29, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521355100
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Medicine; History Of Medicine; Health/Fitness; Europe; 17th century; History / Europe / General; History
Description: This consideration of the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in 17th century medicine sets out to show how, in the period between 1630 and 1730, medicine came to represent something more than a marginal activity and was influenced by the current developments of the day.