Communicating Medicine British Medical Doscourse in Eighteenth-Century Reference Works

• Main Author: Lonati, Elisabetta (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Milano Ledizioni 2017
• Series: Di/Segni
• Subjects: History of medicine; culture; literature; medicine; science; University; University of Milano
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This study investigates eighteenth-century medical writing, particularly concerning the elaboration and the communication of medicine in such reference works as universal dictionaries of arts and sciences, medical dictionaries, and handbooks. Most of the vernacular texts under scrutiny here were iss...