Article ID: CBB067315641

Faith in Drugs: The Material and Immaterial Effects of Medication in the Early Modern French Catholic World (2021)

unapi

This article explores a set of medications, called les remèdes des pauvres, that were distributed from the late seventeenth century onward to the sick poor of rural France and to French missions abroad. Although it was eventually absorbed into the French state as a form of royally sponsored poor relief, this drug distribution network began in 1670 as a distinctly ecclesiastical endeavour, aimed at allowing parish priests, missionaries, and charitable laywomen to imitate the healing ministry of Christ and his apostles. While critics saw them as peddling a dangerous chemical drug in poor villages, their promoters argued that the active charity involved in distributing the remedies, and even the faith placed in their effectiveness by the sick, played an important role in effecting their cures. As such they offer a useful perspective on the shifting boundaries between medical charity and medical commerce, as well as between natural and supernatural healing.

...More
Included in

Article Aslıhan Gürbüzel; Faith Wallis (2021) “Angelical Conjunctions”: An Introduction. Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 419-438). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB067315641/

Similar Citations

Book Nicole R. Rice; (2023)
The Medieval Hospital: Literary Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550

Article Jessica Martucci; (2018)
Religion, Medicine, and Politics: Catholic Physicians' Guilds in America, 1909–32

Article Peter Murray Jones; (2021)
Early Franciscans in England: Sickness, Healing and Salvation

Article Bakker, Catharina Th.; (2004)
Zusters van Liefde voor de verzorging. Hoe de heilige regel van de congregatie van de Zusters van Liefde Moeder Barmhartigheid uit Tilburg een stempel drukte op de zorgpraktijk in drie rooms-katholieke gestichten

Article Elena Serrano; (2021)
A Feminist Physiology: B. J. Feijoo (1676–1764) and His Advice for Those in Love

Article Gänger, Stefanie; (2015)
World Trade in Medicinal Plants from Spanish America, 1717--1815

Book Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri; (2009)
Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500--1700

Book Mariangela Rapetti; (2017)
L'espansione degli Ospedalieri di S. Antonio di Vienne nel Mediterraneo occidentale fra XIII e XVI secolo: archivi e documenti

Article Morag Martin; (2021)
Disciplining the Bodies of Single Women: The Failure of Midwifery Education in the Gers, 1802–1839

Book Adam J. Davis; (2019)
The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital

Article Jeff Horn; (2015)
Lessons of the Levant: early modern French economic development in the Mediterranean

Article Hye-Min Lee; (2016)
Louis XIV’s Ginseng: Shaping of Knowledge on an Herbal Medicine in the Late 17th and the Early 18th Century France

Chapter Pomata, Gianna; (2008)
Malpighi and the Holy Body: Medical Experts and Miraculous Evidence in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Article Watzka, Carlos; Jelínek, Petr; (2009)
Krankenhäuser in Mitteleuropa vor der Aufklärung: Das Beispiel des Ordenshospitals der Bermherzigen Brüder in Feldsberg/Valtice und seiner Patienten 1630--1660

Article McHugh, Tim; (2012)
Expanding Women's Rural Medical Work in Early Modern Brittany: The Daughters of the Holy Spirit

Book Maria Pia Donato; (2014)
Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Article Julia Reed; (2021)
Mechanica Medicina Sacra: Biblical Vegetarianism in Philippe Hecquet’s Theological Medicine

Article Amar, Zohar; Lev, Efraïm; (2005)
An Early Glimpse at Western Medicine in Jerusalem (1700--1840): The Case of the Jews and the Franciscans' Medical Activity

Article Fleck, Eliane Cristina Deckmann; Poletto, Roberto; (2012)
Circulação e produção de saberes e práticas científicas na América meridional no século XVIII: uma análise do manuscrito Materia medica misionera de Pedro Montenegro (1710)

Article Irina Podgorny; (2018)
The elk, the ass, the tapir, their hooves, and the falling sickness: a story of substitution and animal medical substances

Authors & Contributors
Amar, Zohar
Bakker, Catharina Th.
Davis, Adam J.
Donato, Maria Pia
Fleck, Eliane Cristina Deckmann
Gänger, Stefanie
Journals
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
French Historical Studies
French History
Gewina
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Ashgate
Cornell University Press
State University of New York Press
University of Notre Dame Press
Morlacchi
Concepts
Medicine and religion
Roman Catholicism
Medicine
Hospitals and clinics
Materia medica
Health care
People
Feijóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo
Galen
Lancisi, Giovanni Maria
Louis XIV, King of France
Malpighi, Marcello
Montenegro, Pedro de
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
16th century
Medieval
12th century
Places
France
Ottoman Empire
Europe
Italy
England
Rome (Italy)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Paris. Jardin Royal des Plantes
Canonici Regulares Sancti Antonii (Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

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

Log in or register to comment