Contagionism catches on : medical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800 /
This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionalists, who attributed acute diseases to the interaction of internal imbalances with ex...
Main Author: | DeLacy, Margaret (Author) |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave MacMillan,
[2017]
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