The essays below offer contexts for understanding early medicine. They are authored by leading scholars and peer reviewed.

The Range of Healers in Early Modern England
Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University


Patients
Olivia Weisser, University of Massachusetts Boston

Printing Images
Rebecca Whiteley, The University of Manchester

Medical Images
Rebecca Whiteley, The University of Manchester

Military Medicine
Seth LeJacq, Duke University

Apothecaries
Zachary Dorner, Johns Hopkins University
We also plan to feature essays on the following topics:
- Venereal Disease
- Medicine in Shakespeare/the stage and medicine
- Race and Ethnicity
- Animals
- Plague
- Sex and Gender
- Midwifery
- Surgery
- Universities
- Apprenticeship
- Magic and Medicine
- Disability
- Deformity & Monstrosity
- Paracelsian medicine/chemical medicine
- Food and Medicine
- Medicine and the Household
- Medical Advertisements/Proprietary Medicine
- Itinerant Practitioners
- Women and Medical Authority/Print
- Generation
- Plants and Botanical Knowledge