{"product_id":"the-medicine-of-the-people-a-history-of-popular-medicine-before-the-national-health-service-paperback","title":"The Medicine of the People: A history of popular medicine before the National Health Service - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAllan Chapman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo much research in the history of medicine has been devoted to the development of medicine as a progressive science. \u003cem\u003eThe Medicine of the People\u003c\/em\u003e, however, looks at the medical perceptions of lay people over the last four centuries. Lying at the heart of these perceptions is a set of ideas first formulated by Hippocrates, Aristotle and other ancient Greek physicians, which tried to understand illness in terms of vital properties. These included the four Humours of Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Blood and Phlegm, the centrality of the heart as a 'sensitive' organ, the brain as a cooling plant for the blood, and health as a state of balance between hot, cold, moist and dry forces. Such a notion of disease runs through Chaucer, Shakespeare and the early academic physicians, though it lost scientific credibility in the eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventy years after the institution of the National Health Service in Great Britain, \u003cem\u003eThe Medicine of the People \u003c\/em\u003etraces the persistence of the old traditions before its foundation - through popular writers, preachers like John Wesley, Victorian quack advertising and even music hall songs. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with elderly people and doctors, \u003cem\u003eThe Medicine of the People \u003c\/em\u003elooks at an approach to medicine originating in the ancient world, widespread in mediaeval times, familiar to Shakespeare's groundlings, part of the culture of Victorian factory-workers and which came to be re-invented as alternative medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53146585334067,"sku":"9780852449318","price":32.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/0OvpJIusOeHKjOIqvOUDjw.webp?v=1774325190","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-medicine-of-the-people-a-history-of-popular-medicine-before-the-national-health-service-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}