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    Christi Sumich.
    Summary: Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone.

    Contents:
    'Physick keeps her very bare': why would anyone see a doctor in the seventh century?
    'God heals, and the doctor takes the fee': combatting the negative reputation
    'A sacred anatomy both of soul and body': godly physicians in sermon literature
    'Medling fops' with their 'gagling goose-quils': the competition
    'Every man his own doctor': physicians and the printing boom
    'A christian's groans under the body of sin': the pox and the pious physician
    'The baneful source of all our woe': women and the pox
    'A broom in the hand of the almighty': the plague and the unruly poor
    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    Index.
    Digital Access Brill 2013