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By Jennifer 03/08/201603/08/2016 Blog posts

The Maladies of Midwives

While doing some research for the book Sara and I are writing on diseases and medicines in the early modern era I came across a book published in 1703 by Italian doctor Bernardino Ramazzini. Sometimes referred to as the father of occupational medicine Ramazzini’s book explores ‘the various influence of

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By Jennifer 13/04/201606/06/2016 Blog posts

Have you got the Pox?

Last summer I spent a few days in the Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton, reading the casenotes of John Westover, a surgeon – or by the looks of his practice, general practitioner operating in and around Wedmore in  the late seventeenth century.  Having finished going through the casenotes I took the

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