Essays in the History of Therapeutics

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Volume Editors:
W.F. Bynum
and
V. Nutton
Therapeutics has been central to the medical enterprise in all times and all places, but a subject that is all too often neglected by historians. The essays in this volume follow a range in chronology from antiquity to the 1980s and in geography from the Mediterranean Basin to the New World. They touch on such matters as diet and drugs, magic and surgery, orthodox and unorthodox approaches. What they share is an attempt to get beyond the easy dismissal of almost all therapeutics before the twentieth century as meaningless and harmful and to examine concrete dimensions of the therapeutic encounter in its social, professional, religious and scientific reverberations.
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1991
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Preliminary Material
Editor(s): W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton
Pages: i–iii
Introduction
By: W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton
Pages: 1
The History of Therapeutics
By: Guenter B. Risse
Pages: 3–11
From Medical Certainty to Medical Amulets: Three Aspects of Ancient Therapeutics
By: Vivian Nutton
Pages: 13–22
Dietetic and Pharmacological Therapy: A Dilemma Among Fourteenth-Century Jewish Practitioners in the Montpellier Area
By: Luis Garcia-Ballester
Pages: 23–37
Characteristic features of eighteenth-century therapeutics in Germany
By: Christa Habrich
Pages: 39–49
The origins of homoeopathy in Germany
By: Renate Wittern
Pages: 51–63
Science, Healing, and the Physician's Identity: A Problem of Professional Character in Nineteenth-Century America
By: John Harley Warner
Pages: 65–88
“To operate or not to operate?” Scientific and extraneous factors in therapeutical controversies within the Swiss Society of Surgery 1913-1988
By: Ulrich Tröhler
Pages: 89–113
Book Reviews
By: W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton
Pages: 115
John D. Post, Food Shortage, Climatic Variability, and Epidemic Disease in Pre-industrial Europe. The mortality peak in the early 1740s, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1985, pp. 303, ISBN 0-8014-1773-2, $ 32.95
By: James C. Riley
Pages: 115–116
Jan Goldstein, Console and Classify. The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. xiii, 414, illus., ISBN 0-521-32279-0, £ 30 / $ 49.50
By: Mark Finnane
Pages: 116–118
Matthew Ramsey, Professional and popular medicine in France, 1770-1830. The social world of medical practice, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. xvii, 406, illus. (Cambridge History of Medicine Series), ISBN 0-521-30517-9, £ 35 / $ 49.50
By: Frank Huisman
Pages: 118–119
Doreen Evenden Nagy, Popular Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England, Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988, pp. 140, ISBN 0-87972-435-8 / 0-87972-436-6, Can.$ 25.95 (cloth) / $ 12.95 (paperback)
By: Hilary Marland
Pages: 119–121
D. de Moulin (ed.), ’s-Rijkskweekschool voor Militaire Geneeskundigen te Utrecht (1822-1865) (Met een lijst van kwekelingen, samengesteld door M.J. van Lieburg), Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi, 1988, pp. 192, illus. (Nieuwe Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der Natuurwetenschappen, no. 26), ISBN 90-5183-015-7, Dfl. 45.- (paperback)
By: Eddy Houwaart
Pages: 121–123
Donald Fleming, William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987 (first published 1954), pp. 232, ISBN 0-8018-3389-2, $ 9.85 (paperback)
By: Godelieve Van Heteren
Pages: 123–124
James T. Patterson, The Dread Disease. Cancer and Modern American Culture, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, Harvard University Press, 1987, pp.xiii, 380, illus., ISBN 0-674-21625-3, $ 25.95 / $ 30.95 (Europe)
By: David Cantor
Pages: 124–125
Russell C. Maulitz and Diana E. Long (eds), Grand Rounds. One Hundred Years of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988, pp. xviii, 383, illus., ISBN 0-8122-8080-6, $ 34.95
By: Steve Sturdy
Pages: 126–127
J.H. Gaddum, Vasodilator substances of the tissues (with an introduction by H.H. Dale and notes for the fiftieth aniversary edition by F.C. MacIntosh), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987 (first published in German 1936), pp. xviii, 276, illus., ISBN 0-521-30860-7, £ 27.50 / $ 44.50
By: Steve Sturdy
Pages: 128–129
W. W. Mijnhardt, Tot Heil van ’t Menschdom. Culturele genootschappen in Nederland, 1750-1815, Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi, 1988, pp. 430 (Nieuwe Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der Natuurwetenschappen, no. 24), ISBN 90-6203-780-1, Dfl. 75.- (paperback)
By: Harold J. Cook
Pages: 129–131
Maya Borkowsky, Ärztliche Vorschriften zur Schwangerschaftshygiene im 19. Jahrhundert unter Berücksichtigung einiger Aspekte der Diätetik für Gebärende, Wöchnerinnen und Stillende, Chronos Verlag, Zürich, 1988, pp. iv, 383, ISBN 3-905278-25-1, Swiss Fr. 58 (paperback), and Maya Borkowsky, Krankheit Schwangerschaft? Schwangerschaft, Geburt und Wochenbett aus ärztlicher Sicht seit 1800, Chronos Verlag, Zürich, 1988, pp. 336, illus., ISBN 3-905278-26-X, Swiss Fr. 36 (paperback)
By: Mary Lindemann
Pages: 131–133
Valerie Fildes (ed.), Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England (Essays in Memory of Dorothy McLaren), London and New York, Routledge, 1990, pp. xvii, 225 (The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine), ISBN 0-415-02488-9, £ 35
By: Hilary Marland
Pages: 133–135
Ralph Jackson, Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire, London, British Museum Publications, 1988, pp. 207, illus., ISBN 0-7141-1390-5, £ 17.50
By: John M. Riddle
Pages: 135–136
Andrés Piquer, Las epidemias de Hippócrates. Con observaciones párcticas de los antiguos y modernos (with an introduction by José M. López Piñero), Madrid, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 1988 (first published 1761), pp. 200, ISBN 84-7670-067-9, peseta 3000
By: Alfredo Menendez-Navarro
Pages: 136–137
Albert Z. Iskandar, Galen. On Examinations By Which The Best Physicians Are Recognized. Edition of the Arabic version with English translation and commentary, Berlin, DDR, Akademie-Verlag, 1988, pp. 213 (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum Supplementum Orientale IV), ISBN 3-05-000315-4, DM. 98
By: Anthony J. Papalas
Pages: 137–138
Harald Nielsen, Medicaments used in the treatment of Eye Diseases in Egypt, the countries of the Near East, India and China in antiquity, Odense, Denmark, Odense University Press, 1987, pp. 76, illus., ISBN 87-7492-614-4, DKK. 120 (paperback)
By: Anthony J. Papalas
Pages: 138–139
P.J. and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (subscriptions, licenses, apprenticeships) (with the assistance of J.G.L. Burnby and the late T.D. Whittet), Newcastle upon Tyne, Project for Historical Biobibliography, 1988 (second edition, first published 1985), pp. xxvi, 690, illus., index of places, ISBN 1-871768-00-4, £ 80 / $ 160
By: Hilary Marland
Pages: 139–140
Isabel Hunter and Shelagh Wotherspoon, A Bibliography of Health Care in Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1986 (Occasional Papers in the History of Medicine, no. 6), ISBN 0-88901-113-3, Can. $ 18 (paperback)
By: Doreen Evenden Nagy
Pages: 140–141
Tractrix. Yearbook for the History of Science, Medicine, Technology and Mathematics, vol. 1, 1989, pp. 155, illus., ISSN 0924-0829 (copies available from Editions Rodopi BV, Keizersgracht 302-304, 1016 EX Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Editions Rodopi BV, 233 Peachtree Street N.E., Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30303-1504, USA), Dfl. 67.-/ $ 33.50 (institutions), Dfl. 35.-/ $ 17.50 (individual subscribers direct from publishers, plus Dfl. 7.-/ $ 3.50 postage)
By: Eddy Houwaart
Pages: 141–142
Books Received
By: W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton
Pages: 143–146
Back Matter
By: W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton
Pages: 147–156
Introduction

The History of Therapeutics
Guenther B. Rise

From Medical Certainty to Medical Amulets: Three Aspects of Ancient Therapeutics
Vivian Nútton

Dietetic and Pharmacological Therapy: A Dilemma among Fourteenth-Century Jewish Practitioners in the Montpellier Area
Luis Garcia-Ballester

The Origins of Homoeopathy in Germany
Renate Wittern

Science, Healing and the Physician's Identity: A Problem of Professional Character in Nineteenth-Century America
John Harley Warner

"To Operate or not to Operate? Scientific and Extraneous Factors in Therapeutical Controversies within the Swiss Society of Surgery 1913-1988
Ulrich Tröhler

Book reviews
Books received
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
iv, 146 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004418318

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