Title The medical world of Margaret Cavendish : a critical edition / Justin Begley, Benjamin Goldberg

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in medieval and early modern medicine Palgrave studies in medieval and early modern medicine. Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Composition and Manuscript History -- 3. Content -- 4. Context -- 5. Ingredients -- 6. Notable Recipes -- 7. The Transcription -- 8. Appendices Summary This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript compilation of medical recipes and letters, which is held in the University of Nottingham. Collected by the Marquess and Marchioness of Newcastle, William and Margaret Cavendish, during the 1640s and 1650s, this manuscript features letters of advice, recipes, and sundry philosophical and medical reflections by some of the most formidable and influential physicians, philosophers, and courtly scholars of the early seventeenth century. These include "Europe's physician" Theodore de Mayerne, the adventurer and courtier Kenelm Digby, and the natural philosopher, poet, and playwright Margaret Cavendish. While the transcription and accompanying annotations will allow a diverse array of readers to appreciate the manuscript for the first time, the introduction situates the Cavendishes' recipe collecting habits, medical preoccupations, natural philosophical views, and politics within their social, cultural, and philosophical contexts, and draws out some of the most significant implications of this important document Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 SUBJECT Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 fast Subject Medicine -- Europe -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800 Medicine -- Europe -- History -- 17th century Medicine Europe Genre/Form Early works History Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc. Form Electronic book Author Goldberg, Benjamin (Benjamin Isaac), author. ISBN 9783030929275 3030929272

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