Patient's Progress: Sickness, Health and Medical Care, 1650-1850 by Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter

Patient's Progress: Sickness, Health and Medical Care, 1650-1850

Medicine and Society

Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history informative medium-paced
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Pre-modern society was overshadowed by illness and the threat of death. This outstanding new book examines what people did when they fell sick in Britain between 1650 - 1850. The authors investigate the well-established and flourishing tradition o...

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