Description
Perez de Escobar wrote for people who would never see a doctor: what to do when contagion reached the village, how to ventilate, what to burn, whom to isolate, which remedies to trust and which to leave alone. He is writing a generation before Jenner and a century before germ theory, so his explanations are wrong and a fair number of his measures are right — quarantine, air, cleanliness — because they had been learned by three centuries of epidemics. The book is therefore two things: a practical handbook of eighteenth-century domestic medicine, and a record of what careful observation could achieve without any correct theory at all.
Details
Publisher - EDITIONS RECREASOFT
Language - Spanish
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Antonio Perez de Escobar
Published Date - 0001-01-01
ISBN - 9782387810847
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Page Count - 296
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