The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
96 • Confusion Somewhere between the popular and elite healers, another group of care- givers were carrying on a brisk business, ...
The Medical Marketplace • 97 lege’s members dusted off their manuals from earlier epidemics, revising their contents slightly as ...
98 • Confusion tians,” had challenged traditional medical wisdom in a pamphlet war of words. They spoke of a curative “vital spi ...
The Medical Marketplace • 99 ...
100 • Confusion Surgeons and College of Physicians both were “well entrenched oligarchies dominated by self-perpetuating cliques ...
The Medical Marketplace • 101 The line between all these “professional” caregivers and the rest of the medical marketplace, alwa ...
102 • Confusion Antidotes Spiritual and Material When I wake up I thank God for preserving me the night past, then I gargle my t ...
The Medical Marketplace • 103 from their mansion across the river from plague-ridden Westminster. She had just received a letter ...
104 • Confusion him long for it. He called this love between them a strong antidote. “In what dispensary did you find it? Its a ...
The Medical Marketplace • 105 The plague drug of choice was theriac, a mixture of viper’s flesh, garlic, rue, vinegar, walnuts, ...
106 • Confusion matins, and gravediggers were never without their pipes. Two centuries later, workmen excavating the London Unde ...
The Medical Marketplace • 107 shrewd publicity stunt. Angier chose the perfect site for his demonstration: an infected house in ...
108 • Confusion Again Dr. Cocke was helpful. His little paper on plague preparations for the poor was placed in bundles at the d ...
The Medical Marketplace • 109 country home upstream in Surrey, generously taking the landlord’s children along for safekeeping. ...
110 • Confusion offered plague preservatives and cures not too different from those offered by doctors on the Strand. The odd wi ...
The Medical Marketplace • 111 cious potion for five pounds. A stone’s throw away, a rival stationer offered a better deal: for o ...
112 • Confusion theory. To be sure, there were some outright charlatans this summer, deliber- ately deluding the frightened and ...
It is now day. Let us look forth and try what consolation rises with the sun. Not any. For before the jewel of the morning be fu ...
114 • Confusion every parish.^2 Saint Margaret Westminster’s situation was among the worst. In the best of times, this parish ha ...
Plague’s Progress• 115 job?), strapped down the body to a board, or if there were two bearers, they might carry out a body on a ...
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