The alchemy of medicine and print : the Edward Worth Library, Dublin

Folger bibliographic ID: 263778
Folger call number: Z997.W67 A43 2010
Folger holdings ID: 349320

'The Alchemy of Medicine and Print' arises from a conference held in November 2008 at the Royal Society in London to mark the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Edward Worth Library in Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index 'The Alchemy of Medicine and Print' arises from a conference held in November 2008 at the Royal Society in London to mark the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Edward Worth Library in Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin

Contents

Foreword / Michael Lyons -- Introduction : the intellectual alchemy of medicine and print / Danielle Westerhof -- Men of varying means / Lisa Lambert -- Edward Worth and his library / Davis Coakley -- Some private libraries in early eighteenth-century Ireland / Charles Benson -- Medicine in print in the early modern period : medical books in Marsh's Library, Dublin / Jean-Paul Pittion -- The sceptical collector : alchemy and chemistry in early modern Irish medical libraries / Elizabethanne Boran -- Universal language (1641) to universal war (1814) : a reading of Maria Edgeworth's Patronage / Bill McCormack -- Robert Boyle and the uses of print / Michael Hunter -- Vesalius, the book and the bones / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Syphilis (morbus gallicus) in print before 1733 in the Edward Worth collection, Dublin / Magdalena Kozluk -- Petrus de Crescentiis' Ruralia commoda : a medieval agricultural 'regimen sanitatis'? / Danielle Westerhof -- Philosophical regimen and problematic identity in the healer : Hippocrates to Avicenna / Ilham Ibnou-Zahir -- Medicina mentis : medicine and the origins of modern philosophy / Howard Caygill

Extended title: The alchemy of medicine and print : the Edward Worth Library, Dublin / Danielle Westerhof, editor

Worth, Edward, 1678-1733 Private libraries Literature and medicine Science and the humanities Early printed books Europe Edward Worth Library

subject: Worth, Edward, 1678-1733
subject: Edward Worth Library
associated with: Westerhof, Danielle