Book ID: CBB000930514

Medicine-by-Post: The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature (2006)

unapi

Wild, Wayne (Author)


Rodopi


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: 286 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Based on a study of the correspondence from the large private practices of James Jurin, George Cheyne, and William Cullen.


Reviewed By

Review Guerrini, Anita (2008) Review of "Medicine-by-Post: The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (p. 134). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000930514/

Similar Citations

Article Dyde, Sean; (2015)
Cullen, a Cautionary Tale (/isis/citation/CBB001552767/)

Chapter Vickers, Neil; (2011)
Aspects of Character and Sociability in Scottish Enlightenment Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB001251015/)

Article Dominique Couzinet; (2017)
Note sur les consilia juridiques et les consilia médicaux au XVIe siècle (/isis/citation/CBB852517087/)

Chapter Rocca, Julius; (2007)
William Cullen (1710--1790) and Robert Whytt (1714--1766) on the Nervous System (/isis/citation/CBB001032145/)

Article Totaro, Rebecca C. N.; (2003)
Plague's Messengers: Communicating Hope and Despair in England, 1550--1750 (/isis/citation/CBB000430321/)

Book Ludovico Pacino Viti; Benedino Gemelli; (2022)
I consulti di Ludovico Pacino Viti (1662-1732) e di altri medici del suo tempo (/isis/citation/CBB178777125/)

Book Brockliss, L. W. B.; (2002)
Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France (/isis/citation/CBB000501661/)

Article Mackie, Erin; (2013)
Swift and Mimetic Sickness (/isis/citation/CBB001201894/)

Article de Santis, Dario; (2011)
Maiden Voyage (/isis/citation/CBB001024823/)

Book Heggie, Vanessa; (2011)
A History of British Sports Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB001033494/)

Article Avila-Pires, Fernando Dias de; (2007)
Robinson Crusoe's Illness: Literature and Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB001030483/)

Book Weston, Robert; (2013)
Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665--1789 (/isis/citation/CBB001500571/)

Book Ruisinger, Marion Maria; (2008)
Patientenwege. Die Konsiliarkorrespondenz Lorenz Heisters (1683--1758) in der Trew-Sammlung Erlangen (/isis/citation/CBB001022058/)

Article Silvana D'Alessio; (2021)
Medicina e storia naturale nella Napoli del Settecento (/isis/citation/CBB016164088/)

Authors & Contributors
Wild, Wayne
Taylor, Georgette
Alessandro Menin
Silvana D'Alessio
Viti, Ludovico Pacino
Weston, Robert
Concepts
Physicians; doctors
Correspondence and corresponding
Medicine
Medicine and literature
Medicine and society
Patients
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Enlightenment
19th century
16th century
Modern
Places
Great Britain
Scotland
France
Italy
England
Naples (Italy)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment