This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology a

The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.

This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While the historiography has focused on th

First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century analyses the close interplay of medicine and literature by paying special attention