Medicine-by-Post: The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature (2006)
Wild, Wayne (Author)
Rodopi
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.
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).
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