Book ID: CBB702260983

Healing Words: The Printed Handbills of Early Modern London Quacks (2015)

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During the English Restoration, London unlicensed health carers printed handbills as the easiest way to advertise their medical practices. In order to increase our awareness of irregular medical practitioners as a cultural phenomenon and examine their language, two collections of handbills have been transcribed. The study analyses the lexicon used to address readers, the traits of orality in written communication as well as the places where proprietary medicines were sold. Furthermore it looks closely at the visual impact of some handbills and the role of anti-quack satire at the end of the seventeenth century.

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Review Kevin Siena (2016) Review of "Healing Words: The Printed Handbills of Early Modern London Quacks". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 549-550). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wilson, Adrian
Whooley, Owen
Weisser, Olivia
Sumich, Christi Keating
Siena, Kevin P.
Samayoa, Marianne B.
Concepts
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Quackery
Medicine and culture
Medicine and society
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
18th century
16th century
Renaissance
19th century
Places
England
London (England)
United States
Sweden
Italy
Hungary
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
Rockefeller Foundation
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
American Medical Association
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