Unguaranteed Remedies

IF 1.2 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Fangxing Zhou
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By examining an array of sources from seventeenth century England, This article studies the medicines and medical community in a disease-ridden context. I chose the seventeenth century as the field of this research, particularly because plague eruptions occurred frequently in England throughout this period of time. The article serves as a material-culture history, for it is built around the materiality of medicines: Their distinct characters, their manufacturing, and their retailing. This article contends that seventeenth-century English medicines reflect the general stagnation in the development of medical ideas and serious divisions within the medical community. People’s preoccupation with scents indicate their reliance on ancient doctrines, and the lack of consensus regarding manufacturing methods manifested the rifts within the medical community. The disputes also existed in regards to medicine-selling, as two prominent professions of the medical industry, the physicians and apothecaries, antagonized each other due to profit conflicts in the medical market. The fogyish ideas, endless disputes, lack of consensus, and the poor effects of medicines reflect a stagnated and chaotic era during which medicines were an essential source of controversy.
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本文通过研究17世纪英国的一系列资料,在疾病肆虐的背景下研究了医学和医学界。我选择17世纪作为这项研究的领域,特别是因为在这段时间里,瘟疫在英国频繁爆发。这篇文章是一部物质文化史,因为它是围绕着药物的物质性而建立的:它们的独特特征、制造和零售。本文认为,17世纪的英国医学反映了医学思想发展的普遍停滞和医学界的严重分歧。人们对气味的关注表明他们对古代学说的依赖,而对制造方法缺乏共识则表明了医学界的分歧。药品销售也存在争议,因为医疗行业的两个突出职业,医生和药剂师,由于医疗市场的利益冲突而相互对立。顽固的思想、无休止的争论、缺乏共识以及药物的不良效果反映了一个停滞和混乱的时代,在这个时代,药物是争议的主要来源。
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