1st Edition
Sufferers and Healers The Experience of Illness in Seventeenth-Century England
By Lucinda McCray Beier
Copyright 1987
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
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Lucinda McCray Beier’s remarkable book, first published in 1987, enters the world of illness in seventeenth-century England, exploring what it was like to be either a sufferer or a healer. A wide spectrum of healers existed, ranging between the housewife, with her simple herbal preparations, local cunning-folk and bonestters, travelling healers, and formally accredited surgeons and physicians.... Read more
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction 2. The Medical Marketplace 3. A London Surgeon’s Career: Joseph Binns 4. The Physicians Tale 5. Sufferers and Patients: The Diseases of the People 6. Sufferers and Patients: Approaches to Illness 7. In Sickness and in Health: The Josselins’ Experience 8. The Character of a Good Woman: Woman and Illness 9. Conclusion: The Experience of Illness; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
Biography
Lucinda McCray Beier
