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Turquet de Mayerne as baroque physician : the art of medical portraiture / Brian Nance.
LIBRA R131.A1 C48 v.65
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nance, Brian.
- Series:
- Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 65.
- Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
- Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 65
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655.
- Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de.
- Clinical medicine--England--History--17th century.
- Clinical medicine.
- Physicians.
- History.
- England.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- History, 17th Century.
- London.
- Medical Subjects:
- Physicians.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- History, 17th Century.
- London.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 237 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2001.
- Contents:
- "The most difficult thing"
- A phsyician's life: a brief thematic biography
- Constructing the casebooks - The past: evaluating the patient
- The past: determining the patient's temperament
- The present: what is a disease?
- The present: Mayerne's diagnosis in social context
- The future: prognosis
- The future: therapeutics
- The death of prince Henry
- Mayerne as baroque phsyician
- Appendices: 1. A guide to the Ephemerides morborum
- 2. Entries by year and type.
- Notes:
- "This book examines the consultations of Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, a court physician to the early Stuart kings of England"--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9042011416
- 9042011319
- OCLC:
- 48993644
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