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Parasitic Worms in Early Modern Science and Medicine, 1650-1810 (2014)

Julie Hayden Grissom (Author)
Crowther, Kathleen M. (Advisor)
Livesey, Steven J. (Committee Member)
Magruder, Kerry V. (Committee Member)
Tracy, Sarah W. (Committee Member)
Hirschfeld, Katherine (Committee Member)

University of Oklahoma
Crowther, Kathleen M.
Livesey, Steven J.
Magruder, Kerry V.
Tracy, Sarah W.
Hirschfeld, Katherine
Publication date: 2014

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/10387

Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 227 pp.

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Worms Medicine Parasitic diseases Biology Medicine and science, relationships Parasitology 17th century 18th century

From antiquity, parasites, and especially worms, were thought to be responsible for human suffering and disease. However, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, worms became the subject of extensive scientific investigations and began to be implicated in a much wider array of diseases. The advent of widespread use of the compound microscope for scientific investigation in the mid-seventeenth century contributed to a flourishing of research into parasitic organisms, particularly worms, and their role in disease. Although historians of medicine have written about the history of parasitology, almost all of these studies begin with the formal establishment of parasitology as a scientific discipline in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The preceding two centuries of parasitological research, however, remain relatively unexamined. In this project, I argue that parasites, especially worms, were important explanatory mechanisms for a wide range of diseases during the early modern period. Thus, the neglect of early modern parasitology by historians of medicine means that we have missed a crucial aspect of medical theory in this period. This project contributes to our understanding of early modern ideas about disease and disease causation by challenging existing historiographical categories.

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