Setting the scene -- Remedies -- Diseases -- Preventive medicine: healthy lifestyles and healthy environments -- Surgery: the hand work of medicine -- Plague and medical knowledge -- The prevention and cure of the plague -- Conflict and revolution in medicine: the Helmontians -- The failure of the Helmontian revolution in practical medicine -- Changes and continuities.
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