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Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
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This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the
development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While
the historiography has focused on the role of anatomy, this study
shows that the chemical analyses of bodily fluids in the Dutch
Republic radically altered perceptions of the body, propelling
forwards a new system of medicine. It examines the new research
methods and scientific instruments available at the turn of the
eighteenth century that allowed for these developments, taken
forward by Herman Boerhaave and his students. Each chapter focuses
on a different bodily fluid - saliva, blood, urine, milk, sweat,
semen - to investigate how doctors gained new insights into
physiological processes through chemical experimentation on these
bodily fluids. The book reveals how physicians moved from a humoral
theory of medicine to new chemical and mechanical models for
understanding the body in the early modern period. In doing so, it
uncovers the lives and works of an important group of scientists
which grew to become a European-wide community of physicians and
chemists.
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