Medical Consulting by Letter in France 1665 1789 1st Edition by Robert Weston ISBN 1409452174 9781409452171

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ISBN 10: 1409452174

ISBN 13: 9781409452171 

Author:  Robert Weston 

Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This study, the first full-length examination of the practice of consulting by letter, provides a cohesive portrayal of some of the widespread ailments of French society in the latter part of the early modern period. It explores how and why changes occurred in the relationships between those who sought and those who provided medical advice. Previous studies of epistolary medical consulting have limited attention to the output of one or two practitioners, but this study uses the consultations of around 100 individual practitioners from the mid-seventeenth century to the time of the Revolution to give a broad picture of patients and physicians perceptions of illnesses and how they should be treated on a day-to-day basis. It makes a unique contribution to the history of medicine, as no other study has been undertaken in the consulting by letter of surgeons, as opposed to physicians. It is shown that the well-known disputation between physicians and surgeons tells only a part of the history; whereas in fact, necessity required that these two ‘professions’ had to work together for the patients’ good.

Table of contents:

Introduction

Part I: Contexts: Textual, Professional and Social

Correspondence: practices and context

The dynamic medical marketplace

Relationships between medical correspondents

Knowledge, status and power: negotiating authority

Part II: Body, Health and Illness

University medical knowledge in epistolary practice

Patients’ perceptions of the body, health and illness

The deployment of therapies

From complaint to cure

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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