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oapen-20.500.12657-298132021-11-12T16:11:17Z Chapter 5 Wolves Tongues and Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures for Cancer Skuse, Alanna cancer early modernity early modern cancer england early modern medical thought bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to accommodate, seemingly without friction, the notion that cancer was a disease with humoral origins alongside the conviction that the malady was in some sense ontologically independent. Discussions of why cancer spread rapidly through the body, and was difficult, if not impossible, to cure, prompted various medical explanations at the same time that physicians and surgeons joined with non-medical authors in describing the disease as acting in a way that was ‘malignant’ in the fullest sense, purposely ‘fierce’, ‘rebellious’ and intractable.3 Theories seeking to explain why cancer appeared most often in the female breast similarly joined culturally mediated anatomical and humoral theory with recognition of the peculiarities of women’s social, domestic and emotional life-cycles. Moreover, as a morbid disease, cancer generated eclectic and sometimes extreme medical responses, the mixed results of which would prompt many questions over the proper extent of pharmaceutical or surgical intervention. 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T12:38:56Z 2016-03-03 23:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T12:38:56Z 2020-04-01T12:38:56Z 2015 chapter 1000136 OCN: 1076733779 9781137569196;9781137487537 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29813 eng application/pdf n/a Wolves’ Tongues and Mercury_ Pharmaceutical Cures for Cancer - Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England - NCBI Bookshelf.pdf Springer Nature Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England Palgrave Macmillan 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 8ab10c5c-33e3-46a1-9700-8e3fbc2eae8a d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9781137569196;9781137487537 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 219 Basingstoke 5 093090 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to accommodate, seemingly without friction, the notion that cancer was a disease with humoral origins alongside the conviction that the malady was in some sense ontologically independent. Discussions of why cancer spread rapidly through the body, and was difficult, if not impossible, to cure, prompted various medical explanations at the same time that physicians and surgeons joined with non-medical authors in describing the disease as acting in a way that was ‘malignant’ in the fullest sense, purposely ‘fierce’, ‘rebellious’ and intractable.3 Theories seeking to explain why cancer appeared most often in the female breast similarly joined culturally mediated anatomical and humoral theory with recognition of the peculiarities of women’s social, domestic and emotional life-cycles. Moreover, as a morbid disease, cancer generated eclectic and sometimes extreme medical responses, the mixed results of which would prompt many questions over the proper extent of pharmaceutical or surgical intervention.
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