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- Explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century
- Reveals the lives and works of the scientists in the Boerhaave School, which grew to become a European-wide community of physicians and chemists
- Shows how chemical experimentation on bodily fluids allowed doctors to gain a better understanding of physiological processes, reinventing ancient humoral theory
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (PSMEMM)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK
Ruben E. Verwaal
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School
Authors: Ruben E. Verwaal
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51541-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51540-9Published: 28 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51543-0Published: 28 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51541-6Published: 27 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-7387
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7395
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 295
Topics: Intellectual Studies, History of Medicine, European History, History of Science