'A cheap, safe and natural medicine' : religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley's Primitive physic
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'A cheap, safe and natural medicine' : religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley's Primitive physic
（Clio medica, 83）（The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine）
Rodopi, 2007
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John Wesley's Primitive Physic (1747) achieved twenty-three editions in his lifetime, ensuring its popular - and controversial - status in eighteenth-century medicine. This is the first full-length study to examine the theological, intellectual and cultural background to one of the period's most successful medical texts. By exploring Wesley's work in the context of his theology, 'A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine' extends the on-going reconfiguration of the relationship between religion and medicine.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: THE MEDICAL HOLISM OF PRIMITIVE PHYSIC
1 Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain'd in an Easy and Natural Method
2 John Wesley's Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety
3 Experience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England?
4 Preserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules
PART II: PRIMITIVE PHYSIC: 'A COLLECTION OF RECEIPTS'
5 Primitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life
6 Conclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity
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