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Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine
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E. A. Wrigley,
People, Cities and Wealth: The Transformation of Traditional Society
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E. A. Wrigley,
The Character of the Industrial
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Figures in
bold
indicates a definition or an explanation. Figures followed by a lower case ‘n’ refer to footnotes.

Act of Toleration (1689)
22

Adair, James
401

Adams, Dr (Johnson’s doctor)
172
,
184
,
188

addiction/dependence
399
–401,
404
,
406
–9,
417
–18

encouraged
402
–3

Addison & Steele

civilizing mission
114
–15,
116
–17,
228
–9

on education
125
–9

on exercise
119
–21

manners & morals
114
–17,
138
,
203
,
280
,
463

medicine/physic
121
–3

role models
191

on sloth
179
–80

on spiritual health
124
–5

on suicide
225

on temperance
117
–19,
154

on women
263

see also Spectator;
Steele, Richard

Addison, Joseph
see
Addison & Steele Aeschylus
4
,
30

aesthetics
246
,
357
,
381
,
461

afterlife
22
,
100
–103,
471

anthropocentric
221

Christian concept
18
,
20
–21,
81
,
102

Enlightenment concepts
104
–8

Locke on
99
–100,
101
,
359
,
369

nature questioned
81
,
97

Resurrection
18
,
20
,
90
,
102
,
221

see also
body, death/immortality; death/dying

Airs, Waters, Places
(Hippocratic text)
46

Aldini, Giovanni
215
–16

Alexander, William
267
,
268

History of Women
(1779)
258
–9,
261
–2

Anglican Church/Anglicanism
21
,
361
–2

animism
27

Anne, Queen of England
167

anthropocentrism
103

anthropology
256
,
371

classification
247
–9

satirized
465

Anti-Jacobin Review
(1798–1810)
418

‘The Loves of the Triangles’
429

antinomianism
82
,
156
,
158
,
394

Arabian Nights
125

Arbuthnot, John
159

Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments, An
(1731)
230

Arianism/Socinianism
96
,
101
,
364

Aristotle/Aristotelianism
47
,
49
,
66
,
80
,
82
,
83
,
90
,
245

cosmology
32

human nature
130

metaphysics
33

rejected
54

scholasticism
37

soul
32
–3

Arminianism
359

Arnold, Thomas,
Observations on the Nature… of Lunacy
(1782–6)
312

Asgill, John
470

Argument Proving… Eternal Life, An
(1700)
97
–8

Assheton, William
104

Astell, Mary,
Some Reflections upon Marriage
(1697)
263
–4

astrology
see
supernatural phenomena

asylums
see
madness & the insane, care & treatment

Athanasian Creed
101

atheism
85
,
92

Aristotelianism and
90

origins
83
,
84
,
85

science and
93

triumph
147

Athenian Gazette
(1691)
103
,
107
,
249

atomism
51

Austen, Jane

Mansfield Park
(1814)
272

Sanditon
(1817)
282
–3

autobiography
12

confessional
190
,
193
,
273
–8,
274

purpose
195
,
207
,
281

satirized
278
–9

autopsy
223

Bacon, Francis
8
,
51
,
80

Advancement of Learning, The
(1605)
64

demonized
435

scientific method
91

Baglivi, Giorgio,
Praxis Medica
(1699)
53

Baker, John
233

Banks, Joseph
233
,
259

Banks, Sophia
233

Baptista, John & Coloreda, Lazarus (Siamese twins)
106

Baptists
22

Barthes, Roland
14
,
15

Battie, William,
Treatise on Madness
(1758)
314

Baxter, Richard
103

Saints’ Everlasting Rest, The
(1650)
101

Beauclerk, Topham
403

Beconsall, Thomas,
Doctrine of a General Resurrection, The
(1697)
95
–6

Beddoes, Thomas
241
–2,
269
,
412
–15

Considerations on the Medicinal Use of Factitious Airs
(1794)
414

death
417
–18

experiments
403
–4,
412
–13

Bedford, Grosvenor
417

Beethoven, Ludwig van
12

behaviourism
13

Bentham, Jeremy
10
,
25
–6

Berkeley, George
24
–5

Beswick, Miss
215

Bethlem Hospital (asylum)
314

Bewick, Thomas
231
–2

Bildung
9

Birmingham Riots (1791)
413

Black Death
211

black magic
see
supernatural phenomena

Black, Joseph
413

Blackmore, Richard
403

Creation
(1712)
117
,
229

on madness
310

Blake, William
394
,
395
,
433
–4

‘Little Black Boy, The’
249

on natural theology
434
–5

Songs of Innocence
242

body

ageing
242
,
243

appearance
244
,
247
–9,
251

asceticism
227
–8

character & rank
246
–7

Christian doctrine
19
–20,
80
,
226
–7,
228
,
229
–30,
471
–2

death/immortality
102
,
220
–21,
427
,
428
;
see also
afterlife

dissection
223
–6

fashions in
240
–41

functions diarised
232
–3

image
239

language
246

mechanical model
50
–52,
52
–3

medicine and
121
–3

mind, threat to
139

neurophysiology
57