Medical Practice Physician and their patient 1600-1900

Medical Practice, 1600–1900: Physicians and Their Patients......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of Illustrations......Page 7
About the Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 13
PART 1......Page 21
1: Cornucopia Officinae Medicae: Medical Practice Records and
Their Origin......Page 23
2: Doctors and Their Patients in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth
Centuries......Page 51
3: Daily Business: The Organization and Finances of
Doctors’ Practices......Page 83
4: Medicine in Practice: Knowledge, Diagnosis and Therapy......Page 111
5: Medical Practice in Context: Religion, Family, Politics and
Scientific Networks......Page 143
PART 2......Page 161
6: ‘What a Magnificent Work a Good Physician is’: The Medical
Practice of Johannes Magirus (1615–1697)......Page 163
7: Observationes et Curationes Nurimbergenses: The Medical Practice
of Johann Christoph Götz (1688–1733)......Page 181
8: Social Mobility and Medical Practice: Johann Friedrich
Glaser (1707–1789)......Page 200
9: Medical Bedside Training and Healthcare for the Poor in the
Würzburg and Göttingen Policlinics in the First Half of
the Nineteenth Century......Page 219
10: Unlicensed Practice: A Lay Healer in Rural Switzerland......Page 242
11: Administrative and Epistemic Aspects of Medical Practice:
Caesar Adolf Bloesch (1804–1863)......Page 265
12: Franz von Ottenthal: Local Integration of an Alpine Doctor’s
Private Practice (1847–1899)......Page 283
13: A Special Kind of Practice? The Homeopath Friedrich von
Bönninghausen (1828–1910)......Page 299
The Sources......Page 315
Bibliography......Page 325
Index......Page 368