INTRODUCING HEALTH CARE IN TIMES PAST - How our ancestors coped with illness and death by Ian Waller FSG FGRA - FOUR VOLUME SET

Introducing Health Care in Times Past – How Our Ancestors Coped with Illness and Death by Ian Waller FSG FGRA is a compelling four-volume set that explores the evolution of health care and the human experience of illness, healing, and death throughout history. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Waller paints a vivid picture of how ordinary people navigated the challenges of disease, childbirth, mental health, and medical treatment in times before modern medicine.

Each volume focuses on a different aspect of historical health care. The first examines the development of medical professions and institutions, from folk healers and apothecaries to the rise of hospitals and trained practitioners. The second volume delves into the diseases that shaped communities, the epidemics that devastated populations, and the often curious remedies people turned to in desperation. The third volume explores the deeply personal experiences of birth and death, including the customs, superstitions, and social responses surrounding these life events. The final volume turns to military medicine and the long journey toward the creation of the NHS, highlighting the impact of war on medical innovation and public health.

Together, these volumes offer a rich and accessible resource for family historians, social historians, and anyone curious about how our ancestors coped with the physical and emotional realities of health and mortality. 

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£40.00

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