Misery to mirth : : recovery from illness in early modern England / / Hannah Newton.

The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies and died. 'Misery to Mirth' seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the neglected subject of recovery from i...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Physical Description:1 online resource :; illustrations (black and white)
Notes:This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
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