English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine, 1550–1700

ISBN: 9780719069284 出版年：2018 页码：296 Manchester University Press

This volume will help to fill a gap in the current understanding of sixteenth and seventeenth century popular medicine. As the most widely produced and distributed form of printed material in early modern England, almanacs had an immense power to propagate and reinforce traditional, orthodox ideas about medical care throughout England.