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Title
The germ of an idea : contagionism, religion, and society in Britain, 1660-1730 / Margaret DeLacy.
ISBN
9781137575296 (electronic book)
1137575298 (electronic book)
9781137575272
Published
London : Springer Science and Business Media, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
R486
Dewey Decimal Classification
610.941
Summary
Germ of an Idea shows how a belief in contagion began to spread among a group of medical reformers who had been forced by nationality and religious nonconformity to follow alternative pathways to medical education and professional status in early eighteenth century Britain. It explains how contagionism shaped their ideas about the nature and behavior of diseases such as smallpox, plague, syphilis, and consumption and how it interacted with the belief that diseases were not imbalances, but specific entities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: The Eighteenth-Century Slump?; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Short Titles; 1 Introduction: Medical Theory in Early Modern Europe; 2 Restoration Medicine and the Dissenters; 3 Populist Writing on Diseases in the Late Seventeenth Century; 4 The Search for Middle Ground: Disease Theory as Natural History; 5 Animalcules and Animals; 6 English Contagionism and Hans Sloane's Circle; 7 An English Treatise on Living Contagion: Benjamin Marten's New Theory of Consumptions, 1720
8 Smallpox Inoculation and the Royal Society, 1700-17239 Contagion and Plague in the Eighteenth Century; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
