Turquet de Mayerne as baroque physician : the art of medical portraiture / Brian Nance.

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Nance, Brian [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2001.
Description
xiii, 237 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 29 cm.

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    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.
    Notes
    "This book examines the consultations of Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, a court physician to the early Stuart kings of England"--Pref.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index.
    Contents
    • "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.
    ISBN
    • 9789042011410 ((Bound))
    • 9042011416 ((Bound))
    • 9789042011311 ((pbk.))
    • 9042011319 ((pbk.))
    OCLC
    48993644
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