2001 FURDELL, Elizabeth Lane (1944 – )
The royal doctors, 1485-1714: Medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.
"... investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of wo…
GMN 9816 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12004
2001 KAUFFMAN, Matthew H. (1942 – 2013)
Surgeons at war: Medical arrangements for the treatment of the sick and wounded in the British army during the late 18th and 19th centuries.
GMN 13288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15554
2002 HOWARD, Martin
Wellington's doctors: The British Army Medical Services in the Napoleonic wars.
GMN 8830 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11008
2002 VAN ARSDALL, Anne
Medieval herbal remedies. The old English herbarium and Anglo-Saxon medicine.
Edition and translation of the Old English Herbarium, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius C iii, the only illustrated Anglo-Saxon medical text, dating from about 1000 CE, containing information on 185 medicinal plants…
GMN 8879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11057
2002 FURDELL, Elizabeth Lane (1944 – )
Publishing and medicine in early modern England.
"This book examines the effects of medical publishing on the momentous theoretical and jurisdictional controversies in health care in early modern England. The simultaneous collapse of medical orthodoxy and the contro…
GMN 9815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12003
2004 HARRISON, Mark
Medicine and victory: British military medicine in World War II.
GMN 8249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10425
2004 ALLEN, David Elliston (1932 – ); HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )
Medicinal plants in folk tradition: An ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland.
The first comprehensive account of medicinal uses of wild plants by the country folk of Britain and Ireland based on manuscript folklore sources as well as published sources. These included information gathered by the…
GMN 8868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11046
2004 WISE, Sarah
The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.
GMN 9996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12185
2005 FORMAN, Simon (1552 – 1611); KASSELL, Lauren
Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, alchemist, and physician
GMN 10548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12741
2006 GREEN, Monica Helen; GILBERTUS ANGLICUS, (Gilbert of England) (1180 – 1250); MOONEY, Linne R. (1949 – ); TAVORMINA, Mary Teresa (1951 – )
Monica H. Green & Linne R. Mooney: Gilbertus Anglicus, "The Sickness of Women," IN: Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: MS Trinity College Cambridge R.14.52, Its Language, Scribe, and Texts. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina. Vol. 2., pp. 455-568.
"Gilbertus's Compendium medicinae was translated into Middle English in the early 15th century.[4] The gynecological and obstetrical portions of that translation were soon excerpted and circulated widely as an indepen…
GMN 8366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10542
2006 SHAW, Jane (1963 – )
Miracles in Enlightenment England.
Chapter 3: Miracle workers dn healers. Chapter 4: Valentine Greatrakes and the New Philosophy, etc.
GMN 9873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12061
2007 HUDSON, Geoffrey L.
British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830. Edited by Geoffrey L. Hudson.
GMN 8815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10993
2007 PEMBERTON, Neil; WORBOYS, Michael
Rabies in Britain: Dogs, disease and culture, 1830-2000.
Also published as Mad dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000.
GMN 9777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11965
2007 FISSELL, Mary E.
Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.
"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…
GMN 13577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15855
2008 BRUNTON, Deborah
The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
GMN 9878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12066
2008 FORMAN, Simon (1552 – 1611); NAPIER, Richard (1559 – 1634); KASSELL, Lauren
The casebooks project: A digital edition of Simon Forman's & Richard Napier's medical records 1596-1634. Lauren Kassell, Project Director.
http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ "The Casebooks Project offers a tool for searching and reading the medical records of the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier. The project is ongoing: 48,500 cases ar…
GMN 10547 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12740
2009 CURTH, Louise Hill
The care of brute beasts: A social and cultural study of veterinary medicine in Early Modern England.
GMN 8428 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10605
2009 CREGAN, Kate
The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.
"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…
GMN 9811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11999
2009 FURDELL, Elizabeth Lane (1944 – )
Fatal thirst: Diabetes in Britain until insulin.
GMN 9817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12005
2009 LAROCHE, Rebecca
Medical authority and Englishwomen’s herbal texts, 1550–1650.
"Through an analysis of twenty-four examples of female-owned herbals supplemented by case studies of the herbal references in the writings of Margaret Hoby, Grace Mildmay, Elizabeth Isham, and Isabella Whitney, Rebecc…
GMN 10613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12806
2009 HAMLIN, Christopher (1951 – )
Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854.
GMN 10770 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12966
2009 GILMAN, Ernest B.
Plague writing in early modern England.
"During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide r…
GMN 13274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15540
2010 HARRISON, Mark
The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War.
GMN 8248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10424
2010 GILBERTUS ANGLICUS, (Gilbert of England) (1180 – 1250); GETZ, Faye Marie (1952 – )
Healing and society in medieval England. A Middle English translation of the pharmaceutical writings of Gilbertus Anglicus. Edited by Faye Marie Getz.
GMN 8365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10541
2010 SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
The Sloane Letters Project.
http://sloaneletters.com/ "A pilot of this project, Sir Hans Sloane’s Correspondence Online, was first launched at the University of Saskatchewan in 2010 to coincide with the 350th anniversary of Sir Hans Sloane’s bir…
GMN 10117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12306
2011 ALBERTI, Samuel J. M. M.
Morbid curiosities: Medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain.
GMN 7666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9838
2011 REZNICK, Jeffrey S.
Healing the nation: Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War.
GMN 7949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10124
2012 NEWTON, Hannah
The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.
The first book on children's health and illness in early modern England.
GMN 8105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10281
2013 JONES, Claire L.
The medical trade catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914.
GMN 10527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12720
2013 REINARZ, Jonathan; SCHWARZ, Leonard
Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.
The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…
GMN 10541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12734
2014 EVANS, Jennifer
Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…
GMN 10422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12615
2015 WEISSER, Olivia
Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.
A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.
GMN 10969 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13165
2015 HARDY, Anne
Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.
GMN 11442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13641
2016 CAVERT, William M.
The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.
GMN 8106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10282
2016 STOBART, Anne
Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.
GMN 8550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10727
2016 CARTWRIGHT, Anthony C.
The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014: Medicines, international standards and the state.
"The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864. It is used in over 100 countries and rema…
GMN 8977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11156
2016 NORRI, Juhani
Dictionary of medical vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body parts, sicknesses, instruments, and medicinal preparations. 2 vols.
Based on a detailed analysis of 11,397 pages from medical manuscripts and early printed books.It includes information on the spelling variants, origins, and meanings of the terms. A wealth of quotations from the texts…
GMN 9795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11983
2017 OREN-MAGIDOR, Daphna
Infertility in early modern England.
GMN 10754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12950
2018 MACKINTOSH, Alan
The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.
GMN 9792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11980