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The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish - A Critical Edition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish - A Critical Edition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
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This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a
fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript compilation
of medical recipes and letters, which is held in the University of
Nottingham. Collected by the Marquess and Marchioness of Newcastle,
William and Margaret Cavendish, during the 1640s and 1650s, this
manuscript features letters of advice, recipes, and sundry
philosophical and medical reflections by some of the most
formidable and influential physicians, philosophers, and courtly
scholars of the early seventeenth century. These include "Europe's
physician" Theodore de Mayerne, the adventurer and courtier Kenelm
Digby, and the natural philosopher, poet, and playwright Margaret
Cavendish. While the transcription and accompanying annotations
will allow a diverse array of readers to appreciate the manuscript
for the first time, the introduction situates the Cavendishes'
recipe collecting habits, medical preoccupations, natural
philosophical views, and politics within their social, cultural,
and philosophical contexts, and draws out some of the most
significant implications of this important document.
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