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The Doctor on the Stage: Medicine and Medical Men in Seventeenth Century England
by Herbert Silvette
University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1967, 291pp, HC.
[England, 17C]

Chapters
1. The Urine Tells All
2. Bleeding in Health, Disease, and Dilemmas
3. Remedies -- Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral
4. Charms and Potions
5. Great Men and Quacks
6. The Virtuoso
7. The French Disease
8. Science and Satire