UID:
almafu_9959704119602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 328 pages) :
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illustrations, plates; digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5261-1349-X
Serie:
Manchester History of Medicine
Inhalt:
"Very little is known about early modern approaches to convalescence and the author investigates the measures were taken by physicians and laypeople to restore health after illness. Drawing on medical texts, regimens, letters, and diaries, this chapter shows that the treatment of the convalescent differed both from the care of the sick and the healthy. It shows the vital place of the non-naturals in early modern medicine, and the role played by ‘Nature’, understood as the body’s principal agent and governor in physiological processes.
The author finds that the 'six non-natural things' were on the one hand used as a way of gauging the extent of recovery, and on the other, were manipulated in a therapeutic role to ensure that both strength and flesh were restored. Thus, any remaining humours which might cause a relapse must be evacuated: good sleep, improved appetite and an ability to exercise were all signs of improvement but each, managed appropriately, also helped to restore strength, whilst negative emotions could endanger recovery and in its place cheerfulness –which was a restorative-must be encouraged."
Anmerkung:
Introduction: Conserving health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society / Sandra Cavallo --Part I: A comparative perspective on preventive literature --1. Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared / Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey --Part II: The Non-Naturals and the vulnerable body --2. ‘What to expect when you’re always expecting’: frequent childbirth and female health in late Renaissance Italy / Caroline Castiglione --3. ‘Ordering the infant’: caring for newborns in early modern England / Leah Astbury (available open access) --4. ‘She sleeps well and eats an egg’: convalescent care in early modern England / Hannah Newton (available open access) --Part III: Airs and places --5. Neapolitan airs: health advice and medical culture on the edge of a volcano / Maria Conforti --6. The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population / Maria Pia Donato --Part IV: Spiritual health and bodily health 7 Sleep-piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households / Sasha Handley --8. English and Italian health advice: Protestant and Catholic bodies / Tessa Storey --Part V: Spaces, paintings and objects: performing and portraying health --9. Chasing ‘good air’ and viewing beautiful perspectives: painting and health preservation in seventeenth-century Rome / Frances Gage --10. Hot drinking practices in the late-Renaissance Italian household: a case-study around an enigmatic pouring vessel / Marta Ajmar --Index.
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-5261-1350-3
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.7765/9781526113498
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