Household medicine in seventeenth-century England
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOTE TO THE READER -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: Household Healthcare Matters -- Defining household medicine and self-help -- Methodology -- Archival and other sources -- SECTION ONE Information -- 1'The Danger Is Over': News About the Sick -- Prevention -- Self-help treatment -- Sending to the medical practitioner -- Nursing care -- Recovery and the after-effects of illness -- Evaluating old and new treatments -- Taking control of news in illness - the patient -- Taking advantage of illness -- Other healthcare prevention and self-help -- Conclusion -- 2 Medicines or Remedies: Recipes for Health and Illness -- Sources for a household recipe collection -- What made a good recipe? -- Recipe ingredient sources -- How were medicinal recipes used? -- Conclusion -- SECTION TWO Resources -- 3 Early Modern Spending on Healthcare -- Early seventeenth-century households -- Later seventeenth-century household expenditure -- Spending on medical services by households -- Overall household expenditure on healthcare -- Conclusion -- 4 Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Medicinal Ingredients -- Knowledge of medicinal plants -- Sourcing medicinal ingredients -- Gathering medicinal plants for free? -- Recognizing plants -- Preferences in medicinal ingredients -- Exotic or native plants? -- Conclusion -- 5 'Butter for to Make the Ointment': Kitchen Physic -- Diet and health -- The changing role of food -- Kitchen resources -- Distillation of medicines -- Conclusion -- SECTION THREE Practice -- 6 Therapeutics in the Family -- Who received healthcare? -- Therapeutic approaches to children's complaints -- A focus on medicines -- Setting boundaries on household medicine -- Conclusion
eBook, English, 2016
1st ed
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2016