The deaths of the kings of England / by James Rae.

  • James Rae
Date:
1913
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Credit: The deaths of the kings of England / by James Rae. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Creighton’s “ History of Epidemics in Britain,” a monument of industry, learning, and comprehensive deduction to which any later investigator must be indebted for many suggestions. This deals with diseases which spread widely throughout the country, with the plagues which decimated localities during a period of a thousand years. But the ill- nesses which struck at families, the maladies which did most come home to men’s business and bosoms by virtue of a personal destruc- tion, find no place in it. To supply this lack, to delve in another corner of the almost virgin field of medical history was my aim in undertaking the researches explained in the pages which follow. The human aspect of history is a peculiarly fascinating one, and the achieve- ments of our ancestors become more interest- ing as one realises it. Their liability to disease may seem an unusual method of emphasizing the fact, but it is one which must always appeal to anyone interested in medicine: and the English Kings present themselves as a particularly suitable subject for study.
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