The Medical World of Early Modern France

by Colin Jones and Laurence Brockliss

The Medical World of Early Modern France recounts the history of medicine in France between the sixteenth century and the French Revolution. Physicians, surgeons and apothecaries are centre-stage, and the study provides an overview of long-term changes in their ideas about medicine and their craft. Other denizens of the medical world - quacks, charlatans, wise women, midwives, herbalist and others - are also brought into the analysis, which is set...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198227507
• ISBN13: 9780198227502
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 984 Pages
• Weight: 297.00 lbs.