James Jurin (1684-1750) occupied a central place in the medical and scientific circles of Augustan and Georgian England. His dispassionate yet forceful advocacy

Annotated edition of erudite letters from the eighteenth-century sheds light on intellectual life at the time.

The “intelligent and sweeping” (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776—and how Boston’s small

Based on thousands of letters written by patients and their relatives and on a wide range of other sources, this book provides the first comprehensive account o

This investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female pati