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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Superior document: | Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, [2001] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2001 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) :; illustrations, portraits, facsimiles. |
Notes: | "This book examines the consultations of Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, a court physician to the early Stuart kings of England"--Preface. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.