Maladies and Medicine Evans Jennifer
Maladies and Medicine Evans Jennifer Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. It also explains the hierarchy of healers from university…
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Maladies and Medicine Evans Jennifer
Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. It also explains the hierarchy of healers from university trained physicians, to the itinerant women healers who traveled the country offering cures based on inherited knowledge of homemade remedies. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized.
The book has twenty chapters covering attitudes 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. It covers the print explosion of medical health guides, which began to appear in the sixteenth century from more academic medical text books to cheap almanacs. It explores the body from