LEADER 03275nam 22006255 450 001 9910427039503321 005 20230810171230.0 010 $a3-030-51541-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-51541-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000011528330 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6381228 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-51541-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011528330 100 $a20201027d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School /$fby Ruben E. Verwaal 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine,$x2524-7395 311 $a3-030-51540-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1 Introduction -- 2 Savouring Alchemy -- 3 The Nature of Blood -- 4 Piss Prophets and Urine Matters -- 5 Crying Over Spilt Milk -- 6 Sweat it Out -- 7 Semen in Flux -- 8 Conclusion. 330 $aThis book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While the historiography has focused on the role of anatomy, this study shows that the chemical analyses of bodily fluids in the Dutch Republic radically altered perceptions of the body, propelling forwards a new system of medicine. It examines the new research methods and scientific instruments available at the turn of the eighteenth century that allowed for these developments, taken forward by Herman Boerhaave and his students. Each chapter focuses on a different bodily fluid ? saliva, blood, urine, milk, sweat, semen ? to investigate how doctors gained new insights into physiological processes through chemical experimentation on these bodily fluids. The book reveals how physicians moved from a humoral theory of medicine to new chemical and mechanical models for understanding the body in the early modern period. In doing so, it uncovers the lives and works of an important group of scientists which grew to become a European-wide community of physicians and chemists. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine,$x2524-7395 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory 606 $aMedicine$xHistory 606 $aEurope$xHistory 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aIntellectual History 606 $aHistory of Medicine 606 $aEuropean History 606 $aHistory of Science 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory. 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 14$aIntellectual History. 615 24$aHistory of Medicine. 615 24$aEuropean History. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 676 $a610.952 676 $a900 700 $aVerwaal$b Ruben E.$0855936 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910427039503321 996 $aBodily fluids, chemistry and medicine in the eighteenth-century Boerhaave School$91911029 997 $aUNINA