Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-century England

by Dorothy Porter (Author), Dorothy Porter (Author), Roy Porter (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1989

  $100.03

  Pre-modern society was overshadowed by illness and the threat of death. This outstanding new book examines what people did when they fell sick in Britain between 1650 - 1850. The authors investigate the well-established and flourishing tradition of self-medication, as practised by individuals, within the family and in the wider community.