Medical practice, 1600-1900 : physicians and their patients / edited by Martin Dinges, Kay Peter Jankrift, Sabine Schlegelmilch, Michael Stolberg ; translated by Margot Saar.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]

xii, 349 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cornucopia officinae medicae : medical practice records and their origin / Volker Hess and Sabine Schlegelmilch -- Doctors and their patients in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Marion Baschin, Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum and Iris Ritzmann -- Daily business : the organization and finances of doctors' practices / Philipp Klaas, Hubert Steinke and Alois Unterkircher -- Medicine in practice : knowledge, diagnosis and therapy / Annemarie Kinzelbach, Stephanie Neuner and Karen Nolte -- Medical practice in context : religion, family, politics and scientific networks / Ruth Schilling and Kay Peter Jankrift -- What a magnificent work a good physician is' : the medical practice of Johannes Magirus (1615-i697) / Sabine Schlegelmilch -- Social mobility and medical practice : Johann Friedrich Glaser (1707-1789) / Ruth Schilling -- Observationes et curationes nurimbergenses : the medical practice of Johann Christoph Gotz (1688-1733) / Annemarie Kinzelbach, Susanne Grosser, Kay Peter Jankrift, and Marion Ruisinger -- Medical bedside training and healthcare for the poor in the Würzburg and Gottingen policlinics in the first half of the nineteenth century / Stephanie Neuner and Karen Nolte -- Unlicensed practice : a lay healer in rural Switzerland / Alois Unterkircher and Iris Ritzmann -- Administrative and epistemic aspects of medical practice : Caesar Adolf Bloesch (1804-1863) / Lina Gafner -- Franz von Ottenthal : local integration of an Alpine doctor's private practice (1847-1899) / Elisabeth Dietrich-Daurn, Marina Hilber and Eberhard Wofjf -- A special kind of practice? : the homeopath Friedrich von Bonninghausen (1828-1910) / Marion Baschin.