Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780521423540
Subjects: Anthropology; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Medicine; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Social medicine; Europe - General; History; History / Europe / General; Social medicine--Europe--History; Medical care
First sentence: Of each 1,000 people born, 24 die during birth itself; the business of teething disposes of another 50; in the first two years, convulsions and other illness remove another 277; smallpox... carries off another 80 or 90, and measles 10 more.