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(More customer reviews)Leeches were not always the answer, as some enlightened thinkers soon realized. "The Dying and the Doctors: The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England" is a history of how great strides in medicine were made during the 1600s and how they strongly affect western medicine to this day. Author Ian Mortimer presents a history of how society came to turn away from God and leeches, to the hands of science to save their lives. Enhanced with countless charts, statistics, and appendixes, "The Dying and the Doctors" is a must for any studying the history of science or subjects related to the Renaissance and Industrial Revolutions.
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From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early eighteenth century. It is this profound revolution, in both medical and religious terms, as whole communities' hopes for physical survival shifted from God to the doctor, that this book charts. Drawing on more than eighteen thousand probate accounts, it identifies massive increases in the consumption of medicines and medical advice by all social groups and in almost all areas. Most importantly, it examines the role of the towns in providing medical services to rural areas and hinterlands (using the diocese of Canterbury as a particular focus), and demonstrates the extending ranges of physicians', surgeons' and apothecaries' businesses. It also identifies a comparable revolution in community nursing, from its unskilled status in 1600 to a more exclusive one by 1700.
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