The Second Part of the Popular Errors

ISBN-13: 9780817354152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str.

Laurent Joubert; Gregory De Rocher

Opis

This book is an English translation of the second volume of Laurent Joubert s 1578 French work Erreurs Populaires. In it, Joubert proposed to dispel folk remedies and folklore still relied on by doctors and care-givers in France. It also challenged medical theories and advice from classical Greek and Latin writers that French doctors followed uncritically.Gregory de Rocher s skill as a translator brings this highly readable and very funny book to life. Many topics central to Joubert s thesis in the 1500s remain contemporary themes in the popular and scholarly literature of the 1980s."