Nathaniel Hodges (1629–1688): Plague doctor
| Autor: | Christopher J. Duffin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Gerontology
Nostrums 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences media_common.quotation_subject Medicine (miscellaneous) Prison Consumption (sociology) 010502 geochemistry & geophysics Plague (disease) 01 natural sciences Disease Outbreaks History 17th Century Politics History and Philosophy of Science Humans Medicine 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Plague business.industry Historiography United Kingdom Paracelsianism Reference Books Medical business Classics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Medical Biography. 24:30-35 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1087 0967-7720 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0967772014525095 |
| Popis: | Nathaniel Hodges was the son of Thomas Hodges (1605–1672), an influential Anglican preacher and reformer with strong connections in the political life of Carolingian London. Educated at Westminster School, Trinity College Cambridge and Christ Church College, Oxford, Nathaniel established himself as a physician in Walbrook Ward in the City of London. Prominent as one of a handful of medical men who remained in London during the time of the Great Plague of 1665, he wrote the definitive work on the outbreak. His daily precautions against contracting the disease included fortifying himself with Théodore de Mayerne’s antipestilential electuary and the liberal consumption of Sack. Hodges’ approach to the treatment of plague victims was empathetic and based on the traditional Galenic method rather than Paracelsianism although he was pragmatic in the rejection of formulae and simples which he judged from experience to be ineffective. Besieged by financial problems in later life, his practice began to fail in the 1680s and he eventually died in a debtor’s prison. |
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