How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes?
Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Household Health Care Matters
Section 1: Information
1. 'The danger is over': News About the Sick
2. Medicines or Remedies: Recipes for Health and Illness
Section 2: Resources
3. Early Modern Spending on Health Care
4. Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Medicinal Ingredients
5. 'For to make the ointment': Kitchen Physick
Section 3: Practice
6. Therapeutics in the Family
7. 'I troble noe body with my Complaints': Chronic Disorders
Conclusion
Appendix of Household Accounts
Glossary of Ingredients
Bibliography
Index
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Stobart’s sources are … exceptionally well chosen, and the author makes very good use of the letters, pieces of advice, recipe books, descriptions of gifts sent and received, prescriptive instruction, and household accounts that have survived in each family’s papers.
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This scholarly text explores cultures of medicine and self-help in 17th-century English households and contains previously undiscovered source material.
Research based on previously undiscovered sources, which are included as appendices
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781472580344
Publisert
2016-09-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
431 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304
Forfatter