Surgery, skin and syphilis : : Daniel Turner's London (1667-1741) / / Philip K. Wilson.
Daniel Turner’s prolific writings provide valuable insight into the practice of a commonplace Enlightenment London surgeon. Examining his personal, professional, and genteel achievements. Enhances our understanding of the boundary between surgeons and physicians in Enlightenment ‘marketplace’ practi...
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| Superior document: | Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [1999] |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio Medica
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) :; illustrations, portraits. |
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Table of Contents:
- Surgery in History
- Entering the Surgical Trade
- The Surgical Art
- Surgical Perspectives of the Body with a Special Focus on Skin
- A Culture of Reform
- Dispute over the Power of the Maternal Imagination1
- Exposing the ‘Secret Disease’: Recognizing and Treating Syphilis
- Self-Styled Gentleman in London’s Middle Class
- Aftermath
- Vernacular Surgical Treatises 1685-1745
- Constitution of the Benevolent Society for the Improvement of Chyrurgery, andc. (1704)
- List of the Books Turner Gave to Yale College
- Bibliography.