Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Interpreting 'Physick': The Familiar And Foreign Eighteenth-Century Body

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Our eighteenth-century forbears weren't stupid when it came to the art of healing. In the absence of key pieces of information - for examples, germ theory - they developed a model of the body, health, and healing that was fundamentally logical. Some treatments worked, and many didn’t, but there was a method to the apparent madness.

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