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Book The Mexican Treasury

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  • Author : Francisco Hernández
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780804739634
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Mexican Treasury written by Francisco Hernández and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of a selection of English translations from the writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87). One of Spain's leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best remembered for his monumental work The Natural History of New Spain, whose descriptions of over 3,000 plants unknown to Europe have been used for centuries by scientists, physicians, and natural philosophers.

Book Bibliotheca Botanica

Download or read book Bibliotheca Botanica written by Wesley, Wm. & Son and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Review

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  • Release : 1844
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 628 pages

Download or read book Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book prices Current

Download or read book Book prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Review

Download or read book The Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly review  New and improved ser  New and improved ser

Download or read book The Monthly review New and improved ser New and improved ser written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maladies   Medicine

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  • Author : Jennifer Evans
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2017-07-31
  • ISBN : 1473875730
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Maladies Medicine written by Jennifer Evans and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively account of medical practices in early modern England: “Superb . . . an essential piece of social history.” —Books Monthly It was an era when tooth cavities were thought to be caused by tiny worms and smallpox by an inflammation of the blood, and cures ranged from herbal potions, cooling cordials, blistering the skin, and of course letting blood. Maladies and Medicine tells the story of how the body was understood before the major advances of modern medicine, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the hierarchy of healers, from university-trained physicians to the women who traveled the country offering cures based on inherited knowledge of homemade remedies, as well as the print explosion of medical health guides, which began to appear in the sixteenth century, from more academic medical textbooks to cheap almanacs. In twenty chapters discussing attitudes toward, and explanations of, some of the most common diseases and medical conditions of the period, the book reveals the ways people understood them and the steps they took to get better. It examines the body from head to toe, from migraines to gout. Case studies and personal anecdotes taken from doctors’ notes, personal journals, diaries, letters, and even court records show the reactions of individuals to their illnesses and treatments, bringing us into close proximity with people who lived roughly four centuries ago. This richly illustrated study will fascinate those curious about the history of the body and the way our ancestors lived.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain written by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Library and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book auction Records

Download or read book Book auction Records written by Frank Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sick Economies

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  • Author : Jonathan Gil Harris
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-07-17
  • ISBN : 0812202198
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Sick Economies written by Jonathan Gil Harris and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From French Physiocrat theories of the blood-like circulation of wealth to Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the market, the body has played a crucial role in Western perceptions of the economic. In Renaissance culture, however, the dominant bodily metaphors for national wealth and economy were derived from the relatively new language of infectious disease. Whereas traditional Galenic medicine had understood illness as a state of imbalance within the body, early modern writers increasingly reimagined disease as an invasive foreign agent. The rapid rise of global trade in the sixteenth century, and the resulting migrations of people, money, and commodities across national borders, contributed to this growing pathologization of the foreign; conversely, the new trade-inflected vocabularies of disease helped writers to represent the contours of national and global economies. Grounded in scrupulous analyses of cultural and economic history, Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England teases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing. Of particular interest to this study are the ways English playwrights, such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Heywood, Massinger, and Middleton, and mercantilists, such as Malynes, Milles, Misselden, and Mun, rooted their conceptions of national economy in the language of disease. Some of these diseases—syphilis, taint, canker, plague, hepatitis—have subsequently lost their economic connotations; others—most notably consumption—remain integral to the modern economic lexicon but have by and large shed their pathological senses. Breaking new ground by analyzing English mercantilism primarily as a discursive rather than an ideological or economic system, Sick Economies provides a compelling history of how, even in our own time, defenses of transnational economy have paradoxically pathologized the foreign. In the process, Jonathan Gil Harris argues that what we now regard as the discrete sphere of the economic cannot be disentangled from seemingly unrelated domains of Renaissance culture, especially medicine and the theater.

Book Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors  flower painters and garden designers

Download or read book Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors flower painters and garden designers written by Ray Desmond and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four centuries botanists and gardeners in the British Isles have gathered, maintained and propagated many varying species of plants. Their work has been documented in innumerable books and articles which are often difficult to trace. The Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists represents a time-saving reference source for those who wish to discover more about the lives and achievements of the horticulturalists listed. The dictionary's utility comes not only from indicating the major publications of the named authors, but also the location of their herbaria and manuscripts.; The previous 1977 edition of the Dictionary has for many years been a much used source of information for botanists, botanic artists and archivists. In this revised edition the scope has been expanded to include among its 13,000 entries flower painters in addition to botanical artists over 1400 entries and, for the first time, garden designers.; Finally the Dictionary should have international appeal since so many botanists and gardeners worked on collective plants overseas, in particular in North America and the British Commonwealth.; Each entry gives, wherever possible, details of dates and places of birth and death, educational qualifications, professional posts, honours and awards, publications, location of plant collections, manuscripts, drawings and portraits. Its main function, however, is to provide further biographical references to books and periodicals. Comprehensive classified indices facilitate access by professions and activities, countries, and plant interests.

Book Bibliographical Contributions from the Lloyd Library

Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions from the Lloyd Library written by Lloyd Library and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civil Histories

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  • Author : Peter Burke
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2000-05-04
  • ISBN : 0191542679
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Civil Histories written by Peter Burke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, concentrate on one of the broad themes illuminated by his work - changing notions of civility in the past. From the sixteenth century onwards, civility was a term applied to modes of behaviour as well as to cultural and civic attributes. Its influence extended from styles of language and sexual mores to funeral ceremonies and commercial morality. It was used to distinguish the civil from the barbarous and the English from the Irish and Welsh, and to banish superstition and justify imperialism. The contributors - distinguished historians who have been Keith Thomas's pupils - illustrate the many implications of civility in the early modern period and its shifts of meaning down to the twentieth century.

Book Bibliographical Contributions from the Lloyd Library  Cincinnati  Ohio

Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions from the Lloyd Library Cincinnati Ohio written by Lloyd Library (Cincinnati, Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tea and the Tea Table in Eighteenth Century England Vol 2

Download or read book Tea and the Tea Table in Eighteenth Century England Vol 2 written by Markman Ellis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 726 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: