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The Medical World of Early Modern France Book

This is an account of the history of French medicine (1500-1789). Physicians surgeons and apothecaries are centre-stage but quacks charlatans wise women midwives herbalists and others have also been brought into the analysis and their ideas and activities are set within the broader cultural social and political context.Read More

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  • Product Description

    This is a unique history of French medicine between the sixteenth century and the French Revolution. Brockliss focuses on physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, providing an overview of long-term changes in their ideas about medicine and their craft. But he also discusses other denizens of the medical world-- quacks, charlatans, wise women, midwives, herbalist and others--setting them within the broader context of social, economic, demographic, and cultural change.

  • 0198227507
  • 9780198227502
  • Laurence Brockliss, Colin Jones
  • 1 May 1997
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 984
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