Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

2016-09-08 History

Author : Anne Stobart
Release : 2016-09-08
Genre : History
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Download or read book Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England written by Anne Stobart. This book was released on 2016-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes? Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century.

Recipes and Everyday Knowledge

2018-11-28 Science

Author : Elaine Leong
Release : 2018-11-28
Genre : Science
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Download or read book Recipes and Everyday Knowledge written by Elaine Leong. This book was released on 2018-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming “treasuries for health,” each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities. In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elaine Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the history of the printed word, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The production of recipes and recipe books, she argues, were at the heart of quotidian investigations of the natural world or “household science”. She shows how English homes acted as vibrant spaces for knowledge making and transmission, and explores how recipe trials allowed householders to gain deeper understandings of sickness and health, of the human body, and of natural and human-built processes. By recovering this story, Leong extends the parameters of natural inquiry and productively widens the cast of historical characters participating in and contributing to early modern science.

The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century

1989-09-28 History

Author : Roger Kenneth French
Release : 1989-09-28
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century written by Roger Kenneth French. This book was released on 1989-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This consideration of the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in 17th century medicine sets out to show how, in the period between 1630 and 1730, medicine came to represent something more than a marginal activity and was influenced by the current developments of the day.

The Domestic Herbal

2020 History

Author : Margaret Willes
Release : 2020
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 130/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Domestic Herbal written by Margaret Willes. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, even the most elaborate and fashionable gardens had areas set aside for growing herbs, fruit, vegetables and flowers for domestic use, while those of more modest establishments were vital to the survival of the household. This was also a period of exciting introductions of plants from overseas.Using manuscript household manuals, recipe books and printed herbals, this book takes the reader on a tour of the productive garden and of the various parts of the house - kitchens and service rooms, living rooms and bedrooms - to show how these plants were used for cooking and brewing, medicines and cosmetics, in the making and care of clothes, and finally to keep rooms fresh, fragrant and decorated. Recipes used by seventeenth-century households for preparations such as flower syrups, snail water and wormwood ale are also included.A brief herbal gives descriptions of plants that are familiar today, others not so well known, such as the herbs used for dyeing and brewing, and those that held a particular cultural importance in the seventeenth century. Featuring exquisite coloured illustrations from John Gerard's herbal of 1597 as well as prints, archival material and manuscripts, this book provides an intriguing and original focus on the domestic history of Stuart England.

Opening Closets

1996 Materia medica

Author : Jennifer K. Stine
Release : 1996
Genre : Materia medica
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Download or read book Opening Closets written by Jennifer K. Stine. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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