'A cheap, safe and natural medicine' : : religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley's Primitive Physic / / Deborah Madden.

John Wesley’s Primitive Physic (1747) achieved twenty-three editions in his lifetime, ensuring its popular – and controversial – status in eighteenth-century medicine. This is the first full-length study to examine the theological, intellectual and cultural background to one of the period’s most suc...

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Superior document:Clio medica (New York, N.Y.)
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Clio medica (New York, N.Y.)
Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Preliminary material /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Dedication /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Preface /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Acknowledgements /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain’d in an Easy and Natural Method /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t John Wesley’s Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Experience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England? /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Preserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Primitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Conclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Bibliography /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --  |t Index /  |r Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine. 
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