Nicholas Culpeper: English Physician and Astrologer - Hardcover

Thulesius, Olav

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333555643 ISBN 13: 9780333555644

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

'Olav Thulesius sets out to resurrect the sullied reputation of one of the most prolific writers of medical works during the Interregnum. - Thulesius has given us a welcome beginning of a study of a fascinating and neglected figure who made serious contributions to mid-seventeenth-century medicine while always living on the fringes of the established and licensed medical community.' - Martha Baldwin, Journal of the History or Medicine Was Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54) the father of English herbal medicine or a quacksalver and charlatan astrologer? This first modern biography shows a more complex picture. For example during the Civil War the Puritan Culpeper was wounded while fighting on the Parliamentarian side, as a physician of the poor, he had a burning desire to explain the secrets of medicine to ordinary people, He was not only the author of the famous herbal The English Physician but he also wrote the first book on midwifery and childcare and translated The London Pharmacopoeia.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

OLAV THULESIUS

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0333555643
• ISBN 13: 9780333555644
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 221
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Springer Heidelberg; buchhandel-buch@springer.com; ; Tiergartenstr. 17; Heidelberg; 69121; Deutschland