The Medical revolution of the seventeenth century / edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear.

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm

Includes index and bibliographies.

Medicine, religion and the puritan revolution / Peter Elmer -- Harvey in Holland : circulation and the Calvinists / Roger French -- The matters of souls : medical theory and theology in seventeenth-century England / John Henry -- Mental illness, magical medicine and the devil in northern England, 1650-1700 / David Harley -- Passions and the ghost in the machine : or what not to ask about science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany / Johanna Geyer-Kordesch -- Thomas Sydenham : epidemics, experiment and the "good old cause" / Andrew Cunningham -- The medico-religious universe of an early eighteenth-century Parisian doctor : the case of Philippe Hecquet / L.W.B. Brockliss -- Isaac Newton, George Cheyne and the Principia medicinae / Anita Guerrini.

Physicians and the new philosophy : Henry Stubbe and the virtuosi-physicians / Harold J. Cook -- The early Royal Society and the spread of medical knowledge / Roy Porter -- Medical practice in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England : continuity and union / Andrew Wear.