Sir Thomas Browne and the Plague
Sir Thomas Browne’s little treatise is here published for the first time in an annotated version. It offers illuminating insights in how a prominent practicing physician and scholar from Norwich reacts to the plague hitting England in Early Modern times and the small help the medical knowledge abou...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2020-07-01
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Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
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Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/11931 |
Summary: | Sir Thomas Browne’s little treatise is here published for the first time in an annotated version. It offers illuminating insights in how a prominent practicing physician and scholar from Norwich reacts to the plague hitting England in Early Modern times and the small help the medical knowledge about the plague from Paracelsus to Browne, which he examines with great learning.
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ISSN: | 2279-7149 |