Chapter 4 Promoting medical change in Restoration Ireland The chemical revolution and the patronage of James Butler, duke of Ormond (1610-88)

This chapter seeks to situate James Butler, duke of Ormond, at the centre of an important patronage network for medicine in Restoration Britain and Ireland. It explores the Irish dimension of the emergence of the Society of Chemical Physicians and situates it against the background provided by the m...

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Language:English
Published: Manchester, UK Manchester University Press 2019
Series:Social Histories of Medicine
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