Contents note continued: Inter-practitioner Authority -- Negotiating Diagnoses -- Negotiating Treatments -- pt. II BODY, HEALTH AND ILLNESS -- 5.University Medical Knowledge in Epistolary Practice -- The Longevity of the Hippocratic-Galenic Curriculum -- Alternative Theories, Iatrochemistry and latromechanics -- Driving the Machine -- Debates about Nosography and Nosology -- The Learned View of Pathology, Illness and its Diagnosis -- Evidence of Diagnosis and Prognosis -- 6.Patients' Perceptions of the Body, Health and Illness -- Perceptions of Health and Disease -- Patients' Rhetoric -- Patients in Pain -- Describing the Body -- The Perception of Death -- Patient Knowledge -- Hypochondria: Patient Perceptions and Practitioner Advice -- 7.The Deployment of Therapies -- Phlebotomy Revisited -- Medicinal Therapies -- Imbibing Mineral Waters -- Bathing -- The Materia Medica -- Lifestyle and Diet -- Self-medication -- 8.From Complaint to Cure --
Machine generated contents note: Background -- Methodology -- Terms and Concepts -- Structure -- pt. I CONTEXTS: TEXTUAL, PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL -- 1.Correspondence: Practices and Context -- Survey and Collection Techniques -- The Manuscript Sources -- Printed Consultations -- The Structure of Medical Correspondence -- The Veracity of Printed Sources -- The Practitioners of Medical Correspondence -- Epistolary Consultations as Reflections of Medical Practice -- 2.The Dynamic Medical Marketplace -- Defining the Boundaries between Physicians and Surgeons -- Surgeons and their Roles -- The Roles of Paramedicals -- The Presence of Empirics and Charlatans -- The Cost of Medical Treatment -- 3.Relationships between Medical Correspondents -- Family Involvement in Medical Correspondence -- Hereditary Disorders -- A Case Study of Venereal Diseases -- Gender-based Distinctions -- 4.Knowledge, Status and Power: Negotiating Authority -- Establishing Authority --
