Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 ‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’ 23
7. 2 Dr John Arbuthnot’s literary treatment for false learning, pedantry and excess 41
8. 3 ‘The very women read it’ 60
9. 4 Studying in solitude 77
10. 5 ‘Take physic, Pomp’ 96
11. 6 ‘A man of common understanding’ 117
12. 7 Sir Anthony Carlisle’s gothic (medical) intervention 135
13. 8 Mislabelling and the medical printer-publisher 153
14. 9 The uneasy relationship between traditional and orthodox medicine in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell 174
15. 10 Medical men recommend them 193
16. 11 Dissecting Venus 218
17. 12 ‘You taught us that which you knew not to be the truth’ 240
18. Afterword 256
19. Bibliography 261
20. Index 285