This book examines the impetus to incorporate the arts into the science of medicine.

"Harold Cook traces the history of London's College of Physicians from the time of its greatest authority in the 1630s until its juridical failure in 1704. His

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing pr

Drawing upon a myriad of primary and secondary historical sources, The Royal Doctors: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts investigates the influent