LEADER 04322nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910816319303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0495-0 010 $a1-4356-1423-2 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401204958 035 $a(CKB)1000000000481347 035 $a(EBL)556753 035 $a(OCoLC)714567393 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000095955 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12025591 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000095955 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10075775 035 $a(PQKB)10193720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556753 035 $a(OCoLC)183878532$z(OCoLC)433453748$z(OCoLC)647915073$z(OCoLC)714567393$z(OCoLC)764535843$z(OCoLC)842281219 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401204958 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556753 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380152 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL988986 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000481347 100 $a20071130d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$a'A cheap, safe and natural medicine' $ereligion, medicine and culture in John Wesley's Primitive Physic /$fDeborah Madden 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam $cRodopi$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 1 $aClio medica (New York, N.Y.) 225 1 $aWellcome series in the history of medicine 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2274-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary material /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tDedication /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tPreface /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tAcknowledgements /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tIntroduction: Primitive Physic Explain?d in an Easy and Natural Method /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tJohn Wesley?s Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tExperience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England? /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tPreserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tPrimitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tConclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tBibliography /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine --$tIndex /$rEditors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine. 330 $aJohn Wesley?s Primitive Physic (1747) achieved twenty-three editions in his lifetime, ensuring its popular ? and controversial ? status in eighteenth-century medicine. This is the first full-length study to examine the theological, intellectual and cultural background to one of the period?s most successful medical texts. By exploring Wesley?s work in the context of his theology, ? A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine ? extends the on-going reconfiguration of the relationship between religion and medicine. Wesley was on a theological mission to recover the primitive purity of the first Christians. Yet the remedies contained within Primitive Physic suggest a pragmatic thinker, whose concern for spiritual health did not prevent him from providing practical assistance to those who needed it. The evolution of Wesley?s thinking also demonstrates some of the struggles he faced as leader of the Methodist movement, such as the way he handled contemporary criticism of Primitive Physic when religious ?enthusiasm? was often conflated with medical ?quackery?. 'A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine' will be of interest not only to medical and literary historians, but to anyone who is interested in the way religion influences medicine. 410 0$aClio medica (New York, N.Y.) 410 0$aWellcome series in the history of medicine. 606 $aMedicine$xHistory 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory. 676 $a610.9 700 $aMadden$b Deborah$f1970-$01661888 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816319303321 996 $aA cheap, safe and natural medicine$94018085 997 $aUNINA