Published September, 2018
By James Dillon Tully
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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Published in 1821, this is a first-hand account of the spread of the plague and responses to it in the Mediterranean.

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Published September, 2018
By John Pringle
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This 1753 edition of a 1752 book makes practical suggestions to improve hygiene and isolate the sick in military hospitals.

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Published September, 2018
By Samuel Tuke
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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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This 1815 book of 'practical hints' was intended to guide architects in providing an environment promoting physical and mental health.

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Published July, 2014
By John Hall, T. J. Pettigrew and John A. Hall
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The surgeon John Hall, born 1529/30, published this work in 1565 as an appendix to his translation of a thirteenth-century surgical work. Hall was vociferously opposed to fraudulent medicine, and this work, edited by surgeon and antiquarian Thomas Pettigrew (1791-1865) and published in 1844, describes his struggles against quacks.

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Published July, 2014
By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
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The surgeon Thomas Pettigrew (1791-1865) was interested in all aspects of antiquity, and gained fame in London society through his mummy-unwrapping parties. His interest in the early history of medicine is evidenced by this work, published in 1844, which describes the various forms of superstition which medical science had always attracted.

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Published July, 2014
By Thomas Percival
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The physician and medical reformer Thomas Percival (1740-1804) saw the need for a code to guide doctor-patient relations. Based on Hippocratic and Christian principles, his highly influential code was published in 1803 and is considered the first modern formulation of medical ethics.

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Published April, 2014
By John Ayrton Paris
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The physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856) published this work on the significance of diet to health in 1826. After describing the physiology of the alimentary system and discussing the benefits and disadvantages of various foods and drinks, Paris suggests cures, including changes of lifestyle, for digestive illnesses.

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Published March, 2014
By J. G. Malcolmson
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Reissued here together are two medical works published in 1835 by John Grant Malcolmson (1803-44), a British surgeon based in India. His extended essays explore the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of beriberi (thiamine deficiency) and rheumatism, conditions which were widespread in Asia at the time.

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Published March, 2014
By Thomas Percival
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A physician and medical reformer, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) is most notable for his pioneering contribution to the formulation of medical ethics. This one-volume reissue brings together two volumes of his essays on a variety of medical subjects, notably public health, published in a revised second edition of 1772 and a follow-up collection of 1773.

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Published March, 2014
By Forbes Winslow and Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow
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A controversial psychiatrist, known for his involvement in the Jack the Ripper case, Lyttelton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844-1913) spent his entire life studying mental illness. Published in 1874, this is an enlightening but often disturbing insight into the institutional treatment of the mentally ill in the late nineteenth century.

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