No. Continuous (2022): Plagues in Early Modern Europe: Online First
Articles

Sir Thomas Browne and the Plague

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  • Manfred Pfister
Manfred Pfister
Freie Universität Berlin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/jems-2279-7149-11931

Published 2020-07-31

Keywords

  • Hippocrates; Medicine; Plague, Theory and Practice

How to Cite

Pfister , M. . (2020). Sir Thomas Browne and the Plague. Journal of Early Modern Studies, (Continuous), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.13128/jems-2279-7149-11931
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Abstract

Sir Thomas Browne’s little treatise is here published for the first time in an annotated version. It offers illuminating insights in how a prominent practicing physician and scholar from Norwich reacts to the plague hitting England in Early Modern times and the small help the medical knowledge about the plague from Paracelsus to Browne, which he examines with great learning.

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