Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque physician : : the art of medical portraiture / / Brian Nance.
For fifty years, Theodore Turquet de Mayerne served as a royal physician in France and then in England. Historians have long recognised him as a brilliant practitioner and chemical Galenist, but this book is the first major study of his remarkable Latin casebooks, the ‘Ephemerides Morborum’ (Diaries...
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Nance, Brian, author. Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque physician : the art of medical portraiture / Brian Nance. Brill 2001 Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, [2001] ©2001 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine For fifty years, Theodore Turquet de Mayerne served as a royal physician in France and then in England. Historians have long recognised him as a brilliant practitioner and chemical Galenist, but this book is the first major study of his remarkable Latin casebooks, the ‘Ephemerides Morborum’ (Diaries of Disease). Interpreting the casebooks in the light of Mayerne's own theoretical writings and of contemporaries such as Jean Fernel, the book is a cultural history of medical perception. It shows how Mayerne crafted a medical portrait for his patients, moving from evaluation, through diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics, and focuses on those moments when theory and practice merged to form an integrated medical outlook that served as the basis for action. Convinced that his innovations had the sanction of Galen and Hippocrates, Mayerne added chemical principles to humoral medicine, a greater empiricism to a more rational approach to medicine, and an interventionist therapeutics to a more cautious view of therapy, thus forging a complex synthesis that bore certain structural similarities to baroque culture and art. "This book examines the consultations of Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, a court physician to the early Stuart kings of England"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index. A Brief Life -- Constructing the Casebooks -- The Past: Evaluating the Patient -- The Past: Determining the Patient’s Temperament -- The Present: What is a Disease? -- The Present: Mayerne’s Diagnoses in Social Context -- The Future: Prognosis -- The Future: Therapeutics and Chemical Cures -- The Death of Prince Henry -- Mayerne as Baroque Physician -- Appendix One -- Appendix Two -- Bibliography. Description based on print version record. Physicians England Biography. 90-420-1141-6 ebrary Wellcome series in the history of medicine. |
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