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281 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.

x, 315 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Thrifty science : making the most of materials in the history of experiment / Simon Werrett.

Perspectives in economic and social history

xviii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Sanitation in urban Britain, 1560-1700 / Leona J. Skelton.

Landbohistorisk Selskab studieserien

Pesten grasserer! : en undersøgelse af pesten i Danmark i 1650'erne / Lise Gerda Knudsen.

<p>How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes? Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century.--Back cover.</p>

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History, 17th Century

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Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.

Thrifty science : making the most of materials in the history of experiment / Simon Werrett.

Sanitation in urban Britain, 1560-1700 / Leona J. Skelton.

Pesten grasserer! : en undersøgelse af pesten i Danmark i 1650'erne / Lise Gerda Knudsen.

Household medicine in seventeenth-century England / Anne Stobart.

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History, 17th Century

Works

Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.

Thrifty science : making the most of materials in the history of experiment / Simon Werrett.

Sanitation in urban Britain, 1560-1700 / Leona J. Skelton.

Pesten grasserer! : en undersøgelse af pesten i Danmark i 1650'erne / Lise Gerda Knudsen.

Household medicine in seventeenth-century England / Anne Stobart.

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