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Blogs tagged medicine

Court Medicine

Healthcare Personnel and Sanitary Politics in Europe, 15c-18c

Group blog

Le médecin du prince: voyage à travers les cultures – et entre les savoirs et... 15 Jun 2012
Medicine, Politics, and Cultute in the Modern Japanese Empire 26 Apr 2012
Le médecin, les institutions, le roi. Médecine et politique aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles,... 17 Apr 2012

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DrAlun

Just a few random ramblings from Wales's premier early modern medical historian...

Alun Withey

How Welsh medicine helped to create America! 6 May 2013
“The infamous Dr Foulkes”: The ‘black villain’ of 18th-century physick 22 Apr 2013
“Medicine in Medieval Wales” Dr Alun at the Hay Festival, May 31st 2013 1 Apr 2013

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Early Modern Medicine

snippets of early modern gender and medicine

Jennifer Evans

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Early Modern Practitioners

Project blog

Database now operating! 12 May 2013
Questions of Practice…and Practical Questions by Dr Peter Elmer 1 Feb 2013
Welcome to the Project: Building the database 4 Dec 2012

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Early Modern Women - Culture of Knowledge

women's writing and medical knowledge in C17th English society.

history_postgrad

An 18th Century Two-Course Meal 3 Sep 2012
Mrs Corlyon, 'A Booke of divers Medecines' (1606) 14 Jun 2012
"At the Sign of the Flower De Luce" 1 Jun 2012

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Histories of Emotion

from Medieval Europe to Contemporary Australia

Group blog

“The Wrong Kind of Excitement”: Vivienne Westbrook on the Shark as Art 15 May 2013
Reading Emotions 1 May 2013
World War One and Australia’s Frontline Women 22 Apr 2013

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Microcosmus Hypochondriacus

curiosities about early modern medicine and history

Radu Suciu

Readers at Work 3 May 2013
Another fine example of censorship from the 17th century. No... 25 May 2012
Google Books & the Spanish Inquisition 19 May 2012

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medicine

Res Obscura

A compendium of obscure things.

Ben Breen

Early Modern Drugs and Medicinal Cannibalism 27 Dec 2012
A Spaniard in Samarkand, 1404 23 Oct 2012
From Quacks to Quaaludes: Three Centuries of Drug Advertising 12 Jun 2012

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telling the flesh

life writing, citizenship and the body

sonja boon

pho 23 May 2013
of sensuality as joy 15 May 2013
arugula and chocolate chips 13 May 2013

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The Chirurgeon's Apprentice

A website dedicated to the horrors of pre-anaesthetic surgery.

Lindsey Fitzharris Bracken

Opening the Casket with Jeff Jorgenson, Funeral Director 6 May 2013
Curios by Candlelight: Tickets now on Sale! 2 May 2013
If I Die Young: A Brief History of Funeral Invitations 25 Apr 2013

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The Medicine Chest

Exploring the world of eighteenth-century medicine

Marieke Hendriksen

Mercury: back to the source 19 May 2013
Alchemy on the Amstel: a visit to the Ritman Library 9 May 2013
Mercurial drops 24 Mar 2013

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The Recipes Project

Food, Magic, Science, and Medicine

Group blog

A recipe fit for a king 23 May 2013
Exploring CPP 10a214: Pages from Gerard’s Herbal 21 May 2013
Early Modern Medicine for a Re-emerging Disease 16 May 2013

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The Sloane Letters Blog

Sir Hans Sloane's Correspondence Online

Lisa Smith

The Moon and Epilepsy in the Eighteenth Century 23 May 2013
An Unusual Case of Menstruation in Eighteenth-Century England 8 May 2013
Hans Sloane’s Birthday: Tales from the Sloane Correspondence 16 Apr 2013

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Travels and travails in 18th-century England

Keeping the balance between PhD and life!

Sally Osborn

A few little wagers 21 May 2013
Of the vagaries and eccentricities of women 12 May 2013
Here comes the sun 6 May 2013

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