The Germ of an Idea Contagionism, Religion, and Society in Britain,
Germ of an Idea shows how a belief in contagion began to spread among a group of medical reformers who had been forced by nationality and religious nonconformity to follow alternative pathways to medical education and professional status in early eighteen
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The Germ of an Idea
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The Germ of an Idea Con tagi o ni sm, Re l i gi o n , an d S oc i e t y i n Bri ta i n, 1660 - 1 7 3 0
M ar garet
D e L ac y
THE GERM OF AN IDEA Copyright © Margaret DeLacy 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-57527-2 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of Nature America, Inc., One New York Plaza, Suite 4500, New York, NY 10004-1562. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.
ISBN 978-1-349-57558-9 E-PDF ISBN: 978-1-137-57529-6 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-57529-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: DeLacy, Margaret, author. Title: The germ of an idea: contagionism, religion and society in Britain, 1660-1730 / Margaret DeLacy. Description: New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, [2015] Identifiers: LCCN 2015023117 | Subjects: LCSH: Medicine—Great Britain—History—17th century. | Medicine—Great Britain—History—18th century. | Epidemics—Great Britain—History. | Plague—Great Britain—History. | Medicine—Philosophy. | Diseases—Philosophy. | Medicine—Religious aspects. Classification: LCC R486 .D43 2015 | DDC 610.941—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015023117 A catalogue record for the book is available from the British Library.
This book is dedicated to the memory of my brother, John Calvert Eisenstein (1953–1974)
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Contents
Preface: The Eighteenth-Century Slump?
ix
Acknowledgments
xix
Abbreviations and Short Titles
xxi
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Introduction: Medical Theory in Early Modern Europe
1
2
Restoration Medicine and the Dissenters
17
3
Populist Writing on Diseases in the Late Seventeenth Century
37
4
The Search for Middle Ground: Disease Theory as Natural History
49
5
Animalcules and Animals
67
6
English Contagionism and Hans Sloane’s Circle
85
7
An English Treatise on Living Contagion: Benjamin Marten’s New Theory of Consumptions, 1720
107
8
Smallpox Inoculation and the Royal Society, 1700–1723
127
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Contagion and P
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