Index abdomen, and diagnosis 123 abscesses 232, 246, 256, 265 see also apostemes Acade Âmie Royale des Sciences 365 accidents 210 advice, health see regimens Africa, West, as `white man's grave' 189 age, and diet 175 and susceptibility to plague 280 aged see old age ageing, and inevitability of death 168±9 ages, four, in humoral theory 37±8 agriculture 14±15 healthy food production 203±8 land management 202, 205 agues 13, 190, 191, 462, 472 case histories 415, 416±18 air 189, 326, 402 change of, for convalescents 163, 201 and epidemic diseases 452±3, 455 and health 167, 184±93, 194 and plague transmission 137, 299±302, 306±7, 314, 316, 318±25, 328±9 puri®cation 195, 197±9, 302, 320±5 ®res 320, 321, 322±3, 324 gun-shooting 321, 322±3, 324 alchemy 199, 308 Aldine Press, Venice 35 Allen, David 56 Allhallows parish, London 13 aloes 100 America 202, 294 as drugs source 48, 69±70, 71, 80 and origin of pox 260 amputation 210, 236, 239, 244, 250, 252± 4 anatomy 105, 117, 434, 435, 449, 459 comparative 447 and diagnosis 123±6, 145 genital 259 n135 Helmontians' distrust 433, 434, 442±8 and modern learned medicine 441±51, 468, 469, 471±2 pathological 449 physiological see physiology Renaissance 48, 445 surgeons' knowledge 214, 223, 229±30, 253 terminology 105, 145, 381 Andernacht, Guinther von, De Medicina Veteri et Nova 431 Andrews, physician 222 Angier, James, fumigation remedy 337 Anglican Church 360 animals in diet 173±4 experimentation 442, 443, 448 husbandry 203, 205±7 live, as plague therapy 347 in remedies 46, 92, 100, 228 Annales school, French historians 4 antidotes 95, 228, 348, 438 see also mithridatium; theriac antimonial cup 407 apoplexy 108, 117, 408 apostemes 257±8, 265 apothecaries 23, 28, 46, 61, 62, 83, 101, 219, 357, 377, 435, 471 claim right to practise medicine 23, 357, 435, 464±9 and herbal expertise 59, 61, 62±3, 65, 68 and home care of sick 25 n43 partnerships with physicians 47, 411 and plague 296, 335, 337 sale of prepared medicines 55, 394 training/apprenticeship 26, 27, 62, 435 see also Lex Talionis [Anon.]; Society of Apothecaries of London apothecary-physicians 23, 464±6, 467±9 apples 176±7 apprenticeship 18, 367, 449, 465±6, 471 apothecaries 26, 27, 62, 435 474 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521552265 - Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680 Andrew Wear Index More information
