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Misery to mirth :recovery from illness in early modern England

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The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the neglected subject of recovery from illness in England, c.1580–1720. Drawing on an array of archival and printed materials, Misery to Mirth shows that recovery did exist conceptually at this time, and that it was a widely reported phenomenon. The book opens a window onto some of the most profound, as well as the more prosaic, aspects of early modern existence, from attitudes to life and death, to details of what convalescents ate for supper and wore in bed.

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610.942

Publisher

USA : Oxford University Press., 2018

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xiii ; 272p. : ill.

Language

English

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9780198779025

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610.942

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Social conditions
Medicine--Research
Healing

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