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An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in
an important transitional period in early modern medicine. This
book examines the effects of medical publishing on the momentous
theoretical and jurisdictional controversies in health care in
early modern England. The simultaneous collapse of medical
orthodoxy and the control of medicinein London by the Royal College
of Physicians occurred when reform-minded doctors who were trained
on the continent, in tandem with surgeons and apothecaries,
successfully challenged the professional monopoly held by
Oxbridge-educated elites. This work investigates the book trade,
the role it played in medicine, and the impact of the debate itself
on the public sphere. Chapters analyze the politics and religious
preferences of printers and sellers, gender as a factor in medical
publishing, and the location of London bookshops, for clues to the
business of well-being. Advertisements for remedies and therapeutic
skills, the subject of another essay, became commonplace in
17th-centuryEngland; moreover, publishers and bookshop owners
sometimes held the rights to proprietary medicines, undercutting
licensed doctors. The final chapter surveys a variety of medical
illustrations and their influence on the relationship between
patient and physician. An epilogue considers the English medical
scene and the world of print after the famous Rose decision of
1702, when the House of Lords gave apothecaries the legal right to
practice medicine, ratifying the reality of a changed marketplace.
Elizabeth Lane Furdell is Professor of History at the University of
North Florida, and author of The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714 .
Drawing upon a myriad of primary and secondary historical sources,
The Royal Doctors: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts
investigates the influential individuals who attended England's
most important patientsduring a pivotal epoch in the evolution of
the state and the medical profession. Drawing upon a myriad of
primary and secondary historical sources, The Royal Doctors:
Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts investigates the
influential individuals who attended England's most important
patientsduring a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and
the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of
women], heretofore unexamined as a group, made up the medical staff
of the Tudor and Stuart kings and queensof England [as well as the
Lord Protectorships of Oliver and Richard Cromwell]. The royal
doctors faced enormous challenges in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries from diseases that respected no rank and threatened the
very security of the realm. Moreover, they had to weather political
and religious upheavals that led to regicide and revolution, as
well as cope with sharp theoretical and jurisdictional divisions
within English medicine. The rulers often interceded in medical
controversies at the behest of their royal doctors, bringing
sovereign authority to bear on the condition of medicine. Elizabeth
Lane Furdell is Professor of History at the University of
NorthFlorida.
I felt trapped in a world where a minimum-wage job dominated my
life and where trying to make ends meet was just about impossible.
Life was passing me by. I realized that I had so much more to give
to life than I was giving. Let me introduce you to the person who
changed my life forever, the Lord Jesus Christ! See how the Lord
protected and provided each step of the way for this "most unlikely
servant" of His.
Anything can happen under a Christmas Moon... Pregnant, unwed and
down on her luck, history teacher Emma Carlyle is facing the worst
Christmas of her life. Needing some research for her master's
thesis on legendary Wyoming lawman J.D. McNulty, she makes a
Christmas Eve drive to South Pass City, where J.D. was buried.
Heading home, she loses her way in a storm. After her car vanishes,
she ends up in 1870, half-frozen and in labor, on the doorstep of a
remote mountain cabin. When J.D. himself opens the door with a
pistol in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other...well,
let's just say that sparks start flying. These two lost souls are
clearly meant for each other. But there's one problem. Emma has
studied everything about J.D.--and she knows he has only a few
weeks to live. Historical author Elizabeth Lane has penned a
sensual time travel romp that will delight the reader from
beginning to end.
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