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The sheer quantity of volumes pertaining to medicine and health published in Great Britain from 1660 to 1800 attests to George Macaulay Trevelyan's claim that the medical profession was moving out of the dark ages into the light of science. Thus this bibliography of more than 2,000 entries surveys the publication of medical tracts, treatises, narratives, guides, and references published in Great Britain during one of the most significant periods in the history of science in the Western world. Coverage is thorough and representative, identifying both the principal practitioners and theorists of the period and their areas of study and interest.
The work is organized into twenty-four topical sections. Annotations provide brief information about the writer. The work also includes subject and name indexes. The volume will provide a useful reference for historians of medicine and for scholars whose research carries them into the social and scientific aspects of life in eighteenth-century Britain.
List of contents
Preface
General Practice and Commentary upon Medicine
Anatomy and Physiology
Medicines, Cures, and Healing Agents
Waters
Surgery, Wounds, Dissection, Embalming, Rupture, Testicles
Plague/Epidemic, Fever, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, Small Pox, Cow Pox, Inoculation, Venereal Diseases
Cold, Sore Throat, Croup, Catarrh, Whooping Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Respiration, Lungs, Scrofula, Influenza
Gout, Rheumatism, Arthritis, Goiter, Back, Bones, Palsy
Distemper, Epilepsy, Apoplexy, Lock Jaw, Rabies, Swelling, Suppuration, Poison, Infection
Stone, Urinary Diseases and Disorders, Liver, Jaundice
Stomach, Dysentery, Colic, Bowels
Cancer, Ulcers, Tumors
Nutrition and Exercise, Scurvy, Indigestion, Spirits, Diabetes, Worms
Heart, Spleen, Pulse, Blood, Bleeding, Sweating, Weakness
Muscles, Nerves
Head, Hair, Skin
Eyes, Ears
Teeth, Gums, Salivating
Pregnancy and Childbirth, Midwifery, Infants and Children, Women
Seamen, Soldiers and Sailors, Farmers
History, Biography, Hospitals and Institutions, Organizations, Dictionaries, Glossaries, General References
Medical Conditions outside Britain
Professional Concerns
Some Contemporary Medical Periodicals
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
About the author
Samuel J. Rogal, a retired professor of English, has published numerous scholarly books and articles on English literature and British and American Methodism. He lives in Normal, Illinois.
