Household medicine in seventeenth-century England

Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; NOTE TO THE READER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction: Household Healthcare Matters; Defining household medicine and self-help; Methodology; Archival and other sources; SECTION ONE Information; 1'The Danger Is Over': News About the Sick; Prevention; Self-help treatment; Sending to the medical practitioner; Nursing care; Recovery and the after-effects of illness; Evaluating old and new treatments; Taking control of news in illness

the patient; Taking advantage of illness.

Other healthcare prevention and self-helpConclusion; 2 Medicines or Remedies: Recipes for Health and Illness; Sources for a household recipe collection; What made a good recipe?; Recipe ingredient sources; How were medicinal recipes used?; Conclusion; SECTION TWO Resources; 3 Early Modern Spending on Healthcare; Early seventeenth-century households; Later seventeenth-century household expenditure; Spending on medical services by households; Overall household expenditure on healthcare; Conclusion; 4 Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Medicinal Ingredients; Knowledge of medicinal plants.

Sourcing medicinal ingredientsGathering medicinal plants for free?; Recognizing plants; Preferences in medicinal ingredients; Exotic or native plants?; Conclusion; 5 'Butter for to Make the Ointment': Kitchen Physic; Diet and health; The changing role of food; Kitchen resources; Distillation of medicines; Conclusion; SECTION THREE Practice; 6 Therapeutics in the Family; Who received healthcare?; Therapeutic approaches to children's complaints; A focus on medicines; Setting boundaries on household medicine; Conclusion; 7 'I Troble Noe Body with My Complaints': Chronic Disorders.

Self-help and chronic complaintsNursing care and housewifery; Therapeutic choices and determining treatment; Medical authority; Conclusion; Conclusion; Medical authority and therapeutic determination; Changes in seventeenth-century household healthcare; Appendix 1 Clarke household account extracts with quantities of named medicinal ingredients, 1685-1702; Appendix 2 Average quantities and prices for seventeenth-century household medicinal purchases; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index.