Patient’s Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth Century England by Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter

Patient’s Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth Century England

Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter

316 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Premodern society in England was overshadowed by illness and the threat of death. Disease descended suddenly, selecting individual victims or attacking entire households and the community at large. What did people do when they fell sick? The autho...

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