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- catalog abstract "For fifty years, Theodore Turquet de Mayerne served as a royal physician in France and then in England. Historians have long recognised him as a brilliant practitioner and chemical Galenist, but this book is the first major study of his remarkable Latin casebooks, the Ephemerides Morborum (Diaries of Disease). Interpreting the casebooks in the light of Mayerne's own theoretical writings and of contemporaries such as Jean Fernel, the book is a cultural history of medical perception. It shows how Mayerne crafted a medical portrait for his patients, moving from evaluation, through diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics, and focuses on those moments when theory and practice merged to form an integrated medical outlook that served as the basis for action. Convinced that his innovations had the sanction of Galen and Hippocrates, Mayerne added chemical principles to humoral medicine, a greater empiricism to a more rational approach to medicine, and an interventionist therapeutics to.".
- catalog contributor b12437164.
- catalog coverage "London".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""The most difficult thing" -- A physician's life: a brief thematic biography -- Constructing the casebooks - The past: evaluating the patient -- The past: determining the patient's temperament -- The present: what is a disease? -- The present: Mayerne's diagnosis in social context -- The future: prognosis -- The future: therapeutics -- The death of prince Henry -- Mayerne as baroque physician -- Appendices: 1. A guide to the Ephemerides morborum -- 2. Entries by year and type.".
- catalog description "For fifty years, Theodore Turquet de Mayerne served as a royal physician in France and then in England. Historians have long recognised him as a brilliant practitioner and chemical Galenist, but this book is the first major study of his remarkable Latin casebooks, the Ephemerides Morborum (Diaries of Disease). Interpreting the casebooks in the light of Mayerne's own theoretical writings and of contemporaries such as Jean Fernel, the book is a cultural history of medical perception. It shows how Mayerne crafted a medical portrait for his patients, moving from evaluation, through diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics, and focuses on those moments when theory and practice merged to form an integrated medical outlook that served as the basis for action. Convinced that his innovations had the sanction of Galen and Hippocrates, Mayerne added chemical principles to humoral medicine, a greater empiricism to a more rational approach to medicine, and an interventionist therapeutics to.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 237 p. :".
- catalog identifier "9042011319 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "9042011416 (Bound)".
- catalog isPartOf "Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 65.".
- catalog isPartOf "Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 65".
- catalog isPartOf "Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,".
- catalog spatial "London".
- catalog spatial "London.".
- catalog subject "Clinical Medicine London History.".
- catalog subject "Clinical Medicine history London.".
- catalog subject "Clinical Medicine history".
- catalog subject "History, 17th Century London.".
- catalog subject "History, 17th Century".
- catalog subject "Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655.".
- catalog subject "Physician-Patient Relations London.".
- catalog subject "Physician-Patient Relations".
- catalog subject "Physicians London Biography.".
- catalog subject "Physicians".
- catalog subject "R489.M478 N35 2001".
- catalog subject "W1 CL933 v.65 2001".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 M4688N 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents ""The most difficult thing" -- A physician's life: a brief thematic biography -- Constructing the casebooks - The past: evaluating the patient -- The past: determining the patient's temperament -- The present: what is a disease? -- The present: Mayerne's diagnosis in social context -- The future: prognosis -- The future: therapeutics -- The death of prince Henry -- Mayerne as baroque physician -- Appendices: 1. A guide to the Ephemerides morborum -- 2. Entries by year and type.".
- catalog title "Turquet de Mayerne as baroque physician : the art of medical portraiture / Brian Nance.".
- catalog type "Biography".
- catalog type "text".