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Product Description: In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be doctors, such books gave simple advice for home treatments, while commonly warning of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wive's tales and faith-healing...read more
By Roy Porter (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415072175 | Routledge, November 1, 1992, cover price $160.00

Paperback:

9780415514873, titled "The Popularization of Medicine 1650-1850" | Reprint edition (Routledge, November 8, 2011), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health.

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