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Title:

The alchemy of medicine and print : the Edward Worth Library, Dublin / Danielle Westerhof, editor.

Publisher:

Four Courts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

224 p. : ill., port.

Subject:

Worth, Edward,--1678-1733.
Edward Worth Library.
Libraries, Medical--history--Ireland--Congresses.
History of Medicine--Ireland--Congresses.
Rare Books--Ireland--Congresses.
Worth, Edward,--1678-1733--Library--Congresses.
Worth, Edward,--1678-1733.
Private libraries--Ireland--Congresses.
Literature and medicine--History--17th century--Congresses.
Literature and medicine--History--18th century--Congresses.
Science and the humanities--History--17th century--Congresses.
Science and the humanities--History--18th century--Congresses.
Early printed books--Congresses.
Europe--Intellectual life--17th century--Congresses.
Europe--Intellectual life--18th century--Congresses.
General.

Other Authors:

Westerhof, Danielle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword / Michael Lyons -- Introduction : the intellectual alchemy of medicine and print / Danielle Westerhof -- Men of varying means / Lisa Lambert -- Edward Worth and his library / Davis Coakley -- Some private libraries in early eighteenth-century Ireland / Charles Benson -- Medicine in print in the early modern period : medical books in Marsh's Library, Dublin / Jean-Paul Pittion -- The sceptical collector : alchemy and chemistry in early modern Irish medical libraries / Elizabethanne Boran -- Universal language (1641) to universal war (1814) : a reading of Maria Edgeworth's Patronage / Bill McCormack -- Robert Boyle and the uses of print / Michael Hunter -- Vesalius, the book and the bones / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Syphilis (morbus gallicus) in print before 1733 in the Edward Worth collection, Dublin / Magdalena Kozluk -- Petrus de Crescentiis' Ruralia commoda : a medieval agricultural 'regimen sanitatis'? / Danielle Westerhof -- Philosophical regimen and problematic identity in the healer : Hippocrates to Avicenna / Ilham Ibnou-Zahir -- Medicina mentis : medicine and the origins of modern philosophy / Howard Caygill.

Summary:

'The Alchemy of Medicine and Print' arises from a conference held in November 2008 at the Royal Society in London to mark the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Edward Worth Library in Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin.

ISBN:

1846822289
9781846822285

OCLC:

(OCoLC)551377410

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)