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Health, medicine and mortality in the sixteenth century. Edited by Charles Webster.
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Chapter 11 is an analysis of the life and work of librarian and key early pioneer in medical informatics, Sanford V. Larkey by Margaret Pelling. Another chapter, by Paul Slack, “Mirrors of health and treasures of poor men: the uses of the vernacular medical literature of Tudor England,” identified 153 medical books printed in English in England before 1605.
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| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #9769 |
| Permanent Link | https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/11957 |
| External URL | health-medicine-and-mortality-in-the-sixteenth-century-edited-by-charles-webster |
Geographic Context
Publication place: Cambridge, England