Maladies and Medicine
Subtitle: Exploring Health and Healing, 1540-1740
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited; Pen and Sword History
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781473875715
Subjects: Medicine, great britain; Public health, great britain; Medical personnel
Description: "[This book] offers a lively exploration of health and medical care in early modern England, from Elizabeth I's childhood, right up to the days of the early Georgians. [It] has over twenty chapters covering attatudes towards and explanations of, some of the most common diseases and medical conditions in the period and the ways people understood them, along with the steps people took to get better."--Back cover.