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Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as knowledgeable health experts whose education assured good judgment and sage advice, and whose interest in the health of their patients surpassed the peddling of a single nostrum to everyone. The combination of morality with medicine gave them the support of the influential godly in society because physicians’ theories about disease and its prevention supported contemporary concerns that sinfulness was rampant. Particularly disturbing to the godly were sins deemed most threatening to the social order: lasciviousness, ungodliness, and unruliness, all of which were most clearly and threateningly manifested in the urban poor. Physicians’ medical theories and suggestions for curbing some of the most feared and destructive diseases in the seventeenth century, most notably plague and syphilis, focused on reforming or incarcerating the sick and sinful poor. Doing so helped propel physicians to an elevated position in the hierarchy of healers competing for patients in seventeenth-century England.
Excerpt from De Morbo Gallico: A Treatise of the French Disease, Publish'd Above 200 Years Past I well remember, with what infinite Pleafurc I read over the little Book of Hatten's, about time a Perfon of good Rank was commit ting himfelf to my Care, who in vain had tried the Help of the belt Phyficians, and the Power of 'mercury, but was left as an Incurable, yet 'foon'af'ter by this Method he was re ored to ehealth. It was here indeed that Ifound Kemea 'dies be fitted for all the various Symptoms of this Difeafe 5 infomuch that [may fay, whatever Secrets our Modems boafi of, Whether in Method or Medicine, have been long {ince dcfcribed in 'y this little Book, and may be found therein. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."