'A cheap, safe and natural medicine' : religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley's Primitive physic /
Madden, Deborah.
'A cheap, safe and natural medicine' : religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley's Primitive physic / Deborah Madden. - 1 online resource (313 pages) - Wellcome series in the history of medicine Clio medica ; 83 . - Clio Medica 83. Rodopi European History and Culture Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357976. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / Dedication / Preface / Acknowledgements / Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain’d in an Easy and Natural Method / John Wesley’s Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety / Experience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England? / Preserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules / Primitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life / Conclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity / Bibliography / Index / Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine.
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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. Wesley was on a theological mission to recover the primitive purity of the first Christians. Yet the remedies contained within Primitive Physic suggest a pragmatic thinker, whose concern for spiritual health did not prevent him from providing practical assistance to those who needed it. The evolution of Wesley’s thinking also demonstrates some of the struggles he faced as leader of the Methodist movement, such as the way he handled contemporary criticism of Primitive Physic when religious ‘enthusiasm’ was often conflated with medical ‘quackery’. 'A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine' will be of interest not only to medical and literary historians, but to anyone who is interested in the way religion influences medicine.
9789401204958
10.1163/9789401204958 DOI
Wesley, John, 1703-1791. Primitive physic --Criticism and interpretation.
Primitive physic (Wesley, John)
Medicine--Religious aspects.
Medicine--Religious aspects.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
BL65.M4 / M33 2007eb
201/.661
'A cheap, safe and natural medicine' : religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley's Primitive physic / Deborah Madden. - 1 online resource (313 pages) - Wellcome series in the history of medicine Clio medica ; 83 . - Clio Medica 83. Rodopi European History and Culture Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357976. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / Dedication / Preface / Acknowledgements / Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain’d in an Easy and Natural Method / John Wesley’s Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety / Experience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England? / Preserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules / Primitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life / Conclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity / Bibliography / Index / Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine -- Editors A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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. Wesley was on a theological mission to recover the primitive purity of the first Christians. Yet the remedies contained within Primitive Physic suggest a pragmatic thinker, whose concern for spiritual health did not prevent him from providing practical assistance to those who needed it. The evolution of Wesley’s thinking also demonstrates some of the struggles he faced as leader of the Methodist movement, such as the way he handled contemporary criticism of Primitive Physic when religious ‘enthusiasm’ was often conflated with medical ‘quackery’. 'A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine' will be of interest not only to medical and literary historians, but to anyone who is interested in the way religion influences medicine.
9789401204958
10.1163/9789401204958 DOI
Wesley, John, 1703-1791. Primitive physic --Criticism and interpretation.
Primitive physic (Wesley, John)
Medicine--Religious aspects.
Medicine--Religious aspects.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
BL65.M4 / M33 2007eb
201/.661