'This book is a delight, from start to finish, touching upon all manner of fascinating topics...a most enjoyable text.' New Scientist'It would be invidious for

A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and

This edition provides expanded coverage of pre-20th century drugs, including emphasis on setting chapters in a wide historical and social context.

The bicentenary of William Withering's now famous medical report entitled "An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses" has given us the occasion to