Chapter ID: CBB000076834

Plague, prayer and physic: Helmontian medicine in Restoration England (1996)

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Description “I argue that in spite of the general trend towards a more factual and natural approach to plague during the epidemic of 1665 a religious interpretation and reaction to plague continued to characterize the approach of one particular and influential group of medical men, namely those Helmontian physicians, such as George Thomson, who constituted the driving force behind the society of chemical physicians.”


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Book Grell, Ole Peter; Cunningham, Andrew (1996) Religio medici: Medicine and religion in 17th-century England. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
White, Sam
Todd, Malcolm
Stieve, Edwin M.
Slack, Paul
Ross, Cheryl Lynn
Ralley, Robert
Journals
Medical History
William and Mary Quarterly
Scottish Geographical Magazine
Renaissance Quarterly
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of British Studies
Publishers
Watkins
University College London Press
S. S. R. C. Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Routledge & Kegan Paul
Centre for Metropolitan History
University of Pittsburgh
Concepts
Plague
Prayer; praying
Weather
Faith healing
Health care
Witchcraft; demonology
People
Napier, Richard
Jonson, Ben
Fludd, Robert
Time Periods
17th century
Medieval
Renaissance
16th century
Places
British Isles
England
North America
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