Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (History of Medicine in Context)

by JamesKelly (Author), Fiona Clark (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $99.03

  The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held a fascination for scholars. This title provides an exploration of the changes and developments in medicine as practised in Ireland and by Irish physicians studying and working abroad during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.