Literature and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century
Original title: Literature & medicine during the eighteenth century
Also published as: Literature & medicine during the eighteenth century
earliest edition we have, 1993 Routledge, 1993 293 pages
The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
"Nowadays medicine and literature are widely seen as falling on different sides of the 'two cultures' divide. This was not so in the eighteenth century when doctors, scientists, writers and artists formed a well-integrated educated elite and often collaborated with each other. Physicians like Erasmus Darwin doubled as poets; novelists such as Tobias Smollett were medically qualified. This close interplay of medicine...
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