BookChristi 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
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