Maladies and Medicine

de Sara Read

"[This book] offers a lively exploration of health and medical care in early modern England, from Elizabeth I's childhood, right up to the days of the early Georgians. [It] has over twenty chapters covering attatudes towards and explanations of, some of the most common diseases and medical conditions in the period and the ways people understood them, along with the steps people took to get better."--Back cover.