By The Gout and The Spider A few weeks ago I wrote about the stone, the radish and the knife and we considered the ways in which early modern medical practitioners attempted to rationalise and justify their treatments with stories that explained how a particular medicine was discovered. But it was
Mrs King of Northfleet’s Menstruating Leg Ulcer.
By Dr Sara Read According to the case notes of Dr John Woodward (1665-1728), at around the age of fifteen a Mrs King (b. 1675) had a piece of wood fall on her which resulted in an open wound on her leg.[1] At the time, Mrs King was not long
The Stone, the Knife, and the Radish: Discovering Medicines
One of the diseases, found particularly in men, which I come across frequently in this research is The Stone or Gravel, in the kidneys or in the bladder. These stones were thought to be caused by excessive build-up of humours within the urine, in hot bodies these humours would ‘bake’
Beautiful Healthy Bodies
In recent years we have been repeatedly told that modern media culture, with its air-brushed images of perfect bodies, has created generations of young people overly concerned with their body image. More than this we are told that the attempts to attain such beautiful bodies, through fad-diets and plastic surgery etc., are