Disability is a modern category; early moderns eschewed euphemism here, employing a rich language of bodily defect, such as blear-eyed, lame, cripple, etc. Many surgical works address the kinds of injury or bodily abnormality we would consider disability.
Last Name | First Name | Title Sort descending | Date |
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[author not specified] | A true relation of the wonderful cure of Mary Maillard | 1694 | |
[author not specified] | At Mr. Brett’s, an apothecary... | 1700 | |
Elmy | At the blew Ball in Haydon yard in the Little Minories, London, near the Tower… | 1675 | |
[author not specified] | At the blew ball in little Kerby street.. | 1680 | |
Merry | Nathaniel | Evident satisfa[cti]on to the sick and lame; by Nath. Merry, student in physick… | 1682 |