| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
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text file |
| Series |
Online access with DDA: Askews (Medicine)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Other healthcare prevention and self-helpConclusion; 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. |
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Sourcing medicinal ingredientsGathering 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; 7 'I Troble Noe Body with My Complaints': Chronic Disorders. |
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Self-help and chronic complaintsNursing care and housewifery; Therapeutic choices and determining treatment; Medical authority; Conclusion; Conclusion; Medical authority and therapeutic determination; Changes in seventeenth-century household healthcare; Appendix 1 Clarke household account extracts with quantities of named medicinal ingredients, 1685-1702; Appendix 2 Average quantities and prices for seventeenth-century household medicinal purchases; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index. |
| Summary |
"How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes? Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century. This book focuses on household healthcare in seventeenth-century England which has been little researched, although widely assumed to have existed as part of a self-help culture. Drawing on family papers this book reveals considerable detail and the complexity of how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in gentry and aristocratic households. Much information was shared, from news about health to concerns and fears and medicinal recipes which were widely collected by both women and men. Varied approaches to self-help were used by families, and this book identifies gender roles and consumption practices, including favourite recipes and medicine purchases, from simples to universal cure-alls. Resources for household healthcare included a range of medicinal supplies, from foods to countryside plants and exotic drugs from the apothecary. Treatment and care of children's complaints and chronic conditions in later seventeenth-century households are explored, showing how both women and men drew on their understanding of disease, and experiences of self-help, to influence treatment. Continuity and change in household healthcare during the seventeenth century are evaluated alongside the availability of commercial and professional medicine. This book contributes to understanding the key role of medicines and self-help in the process of negotiating healthcare in early modern England."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Medicine. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Paperback 9781472580344 |
| ISBN |
9781474295932 (electronic book) |
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1474295932 (electronic book) |
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9781472580368 (electronic book) |
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1472580362 (electronic book) |
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9781472580375 (electronic book) |
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1472580370 (electronic book) |
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1472580346 |
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9781472580344 |
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9781472580351 (hardback) |
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9781472580344 (paperback) |
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1472580354 |
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9781472580351 |
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