This is a sensitive, well-researched portrayal of life, health care, medicine and popular cures in seventeenth-century France, as seen through the eyes of the famous letter writer Madame de S???vign??? and recounted by a contemporary physician and surgeon, Yves Pouliquen. The author sketches a lively portrait of Madame de S???vign??? and gives us a vivid description of contemporary health problems and fears, which included the plague and smallpox. He also reviews the most controversial medical issue of the time, i.e. the ...
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This is a sensitive, well-researched portrayal of life, health care, medicine and popular cures in seventeenth-century France, as seen through the eyes of the famous letter writer Madame de S???vign??? and recounted by a contemporary physician and surgeon, Yves Pouliquen. The author sketches a lively portrait of Madame de S???vign??? and gives us a vivid description of contemporary health problems and fears, which included the plague and smallpox. He also reviews the most controversial medical issue of the time, i.e. the opposition between traditional and modern medical methods, and describes the picturesque pharmacopoeia of the age. He recounts how, disappointed by the medical profession, Madame de S???vign??? turned to disreputable charlatans, quacks and healers. He concludes with a thorough examination of Madame de S???vign???'s own health, casting a new light on her obsessions, neuroses and personal relations.Through this detailed medical portrait of the famous letter writer, Pouliquen brings to life how our seventeenth-century predecessors viewed the human body, disease and death.Yves Pouliquen is a surgeon and member of the French Academy. He is a former director of Ophthalmology at the Paris hospital l?H???tel-Dieu and a former senior research fellow at the Institut National de la Sant??? et de la Recherche M???dicale (INSERM).He is the author of La Transparence de l il (1992), Un oculiste au si???cle des Lumi???res: Jacques Daviel (1999), Le Geste et l?Esprit: La nouvelle ???re de la chirurgie (2003).
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Add this copy of Madame de Sévigné and Medicine / Madame de Sévigné et to cart. $41.28, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2006 by Odile Jacob.
Add this copy of Madame De Sévigné and Medicine / Madame De Sévigné Et to cart. $73.07, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Odile Jacob.
