MPIWG

REM (beta) Reading Early Medicine

disease, causes of

In the largely humoral model of medicine predominant in the early modern period, disease causation was very different to what it is today. There was no germ theory; the causes of ill-health were usually described in relation to an individual’s humoral balance, although a very small set of diseases, such as the so-called French pox and the plague were seen as contagious.


There are 121 books tagged with this term.
 
Last Name First Name Title Date
Jewel Edward A brief discourse of the stomach and parts subservient... 1678
Jones John A briefe, excellent, and profitable discourse, of the naturall beginning of all growing and liuing… 1574
Jones John A briefe, excellent, and profitable discourse, of the naturall beginning of all growing and liuing… 1574
Pechey John A collection of chronical diseases, viz. the colick: the bilious colick: hysterick diseases: the gout… 1692
Cockburn William A continuation of the account of the nature, causes, symptoms and cure of the distempers… 1697
Chamberlen Hugh A few queries relating to the practice of physick, with remarks upon some of them… 1694
Sermon William A friend to the sick: or, The honest English mans preservation. Shewing the causes, symptoms… 1673
Platter Felix A golden practice of physick. In five books, and three tomes. After a new, easie… 1662
P. B. A letter to a friend concerning the sickness and death of His Highness the Duke… 1700
Partlicius Simeon A new method of physick: or, A short view of Paracelsus and Galen’s practice; in… 1654
Peter John A philosophical account of this hard frost. From whence is rationally concluded what effects it… 1684
Russell William A physical treatise, grounded, not upon tradition, nor phancy, but experience, consisting of three parts… 1684
Nevett Thomas A treatise of consumptions: in which their nature, causes and symptoms are briefly explained; and… 1697
Langton Christopher A uery brefe treatise, ordrely declaring the pri[n]cipal partes of phisick, that is… 1547
Tuthill Francis A vindication of some objections lately raised against Dr. John Colbatch his hipothesis. Together with… 1698
[author not specified] An account of the causes of some particular rebellious distempers, viz. the scurvy, cancers in… 1670
Cockburn William An account of the nature, causes, symptoms and cure of the distempers that are incident… 1696
La Framboisière Nicolas Abraham de An easy method to know the causes and signs of the humour most ruleth in… 1640
Wolsterstan Stanford An enquiry into the causes of diseases in general and the disturbances of the humors… 1692
Willis Thomas An essay of the pathology of the brain and nervous stock: in which convulsive diseases… 1684
Galen Certaine vvorkes of Galens, called Methodus medendi, with a briefe declaration of the worthie art… 1586
Galen Certaine workes of Galens called Methodus medendi, with a briefe declaration of The worthie art… 1567
Pechey John Collections of acute diseases, in five parts. I. Of the small pox and measles. II… 1691
Pechey John Collections of acute diseases, the fourth part. It contains all that the learn’d and experienc’d… 1691
Pechey John Collections of acute diseases. Taken from the best authors that have written most accurately of… 1687
Pechey John Collections of acute diseases. The second and third part. The second part, contains all that… 1688
Drage William Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before… 1665
Drage William Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before… 1665
Pemell Robert De morbis capitis; or, Of the chief internall diseases of the head. With their causes… 1650
Willis Thomas Dr. Willis’s practice of physick, being all the medical vvorks of that renowned and famous… 1681