Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine : Practitioners, collectors and contexts

This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland. Of particular note is the substantial attention devoted to the often neglected period before 1750. Among the key subjects addressed by the contributors are Gaelic medicine,...

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Other Authors: Cunningham, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Manchester, UK Manchester University Press 2019
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