Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Edition: New edition
Series: The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780801867859
Subjects: History Of Medicine; Social History; c 1700 to c 1800; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Germany; Europe - Germany; History; Medical / History
First sentence: In May 1747, Georg Spangenberg, an obscure physician practicing in a remote corner of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel, penned a long report to the ducal Collegium medicum (Board of Health).