Abstract
Histories of family health
Highlights
Individuals in the past, who are like figures seen at a vast distance, are at the same time eerily close; people like us
Almost forty years later, at the age of 80, Betty reported to her niece that "I find nothing does me so much good as exercise." The Johnstones wrote to each other amazingly often about what they described as their “state of health,” and their illnesses were redoubtable
"I was seized all at once with that species of a Putrid Fever called Mille Harpies," James wrote to his brother John; to his sister Charlotte’s husband, he wrote "I have been almost dead and what is worse rotten before I was dead." They had cold feet and swollen legs, “flatus” and “lowness.” Their remedies were repulsive; "my father... was bled blistered vomited & had three doses of rhubarb," Charlotte reported to their brother William, and asked him to lend her sixpence, to buy “elixir of vitriol.”
Summary
The Art of Medicine Histories of Family Health Emma Rothschild . They lived in families, sought information about their own and their friends’ health, and were anxious about the relationship between the body and the mind.
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