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 hou

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practiti

A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period.

This monograph, the first detailed study of seventeenth-century popular medicine, depicts the major role which lay or popular medical practitioners played in th