LEADER 03710nam 22004811 450 001 9910511320003321 005 20160714085019.0 010 $a1-4725-8036-2 010 $a1-4742-9593-2 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474295932 035 $a(CKB)3880000000025902 035 $a(EBL)4653878 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4653878 035 $a(OCoLC)955223186 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP0065950520 035 $a(EXLCZ)993880000000025902 100 $a20160730d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHousehold medicine in seventeenth-century England /$fAnne Stobart 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-8035-4 311 $a1-4725-8034-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $asection 1. Information -- section 2. Resources -- section 3. Practice. 330 $a"How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes? Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century. This book focuses on household healthcare in seventeenth-century England which has been little researched, although widely assumed to have existed as part of a self-help culture. Drawing on family papers this book reveals considerable detail and the complexity of how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in gentry and aristocratic households. Much information was shared, from news about health to concerns and fears and medicinal recipes which were widely collected by both women and men. Varied approaches to self-help were used by families, and this book identifies gender roles and consumption practices, including favourite recipes and medicine purchases, from simples to universal cure-alls. Resources for household healthcare included a range of medicinal supplies, from foods to countryside plants and exotic drugs from the apothecary. Treatment and care of children's complaints and chronic conditions in later seventeenth-century households are explored, showing how both women and men drew on their understanding of disease, and experiences of self-help, to influence treatment. Continuity and change in household healthcare during the seventeenth century are evaluated alongside the availability of commercial and professional medicine. This book contributes to understanding the key role of medicines and self-help in the process of negotiating healthcare in early modern England."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aMedicine$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $2History 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory 676 $a610.94209032 700 $aStobart$b Anne$01067295 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511320003321 996 $aHousehold medicine in seventeenth-century England$92550852 997 $aUNINA