{"id":12797,"date":"2020-04-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/?page_id=12797"},"modified":"2021-04-09T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T07:02:10","slug":"the-healing-place-of-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/collections\/past-exhibitions-and-displays\/the-healing-place-of-the-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Healing Place of the Soul : Medical Books from Armagh Robinson Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This book exhibition shows different medical books from the Library\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 1770s Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh, had a vision of re-establishing Armagh as a centre of learning. He built a library, a hospital and, twenty years later, an observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Library borrower books we learn that surgeons and doctors visited to study medical books in the collection. One example is of a Dr Simpson who borrowed Medicina Gymnastica<\/em>, a text on the importance of exercise in medical treatment, in 1805. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TITLE<\/strong>
The anatomy of melancholy : vvhat it is. VVith all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and seuerall cures of it. In three 
maine partitions, with their seuerall sections, members, and subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut
 vp, by Democritus Iunior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
Robert Burton
PLACE OF<\/strong> PUBLICATION<\/strong>
Oxford
PUBLISHER<\/strong>
Henry Cripps
YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1624
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
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Burton\u2019s The Anatomy of Melancholy<\/em> is presented as a medical text, but it is just as much a work of satirical literature and philosophy. The text covers subjects on an encyclopaedic scale, including digestion, goblins, and the geography of America.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The work proved to be very popular with the public, and Burton,\nnotorious for re-writing his works, published five further revised\neditions. The original manuscript has not survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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TITLE<\/strong>
The Surgeon\u2019s Mate, or Military and Domestique Surgery<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
John Woodall
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
London
PUBLISHER<\/strong>
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YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1639
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
P001404403 <\/p><\/pre>
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Woodall is best known for this work, The Surgeon\u2019s Mate<\/em>, first published in 1617, which was the standard text for ships\u2019 surgeons on medical treatments while at sea. It contained an advanced view on the treatment of scurvy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
[\u2026] the Lemmons, Limes, Tamarinds, Oranges, and other choice of good   helps in the Indies… do farre exceed any that can be carried tither from England.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In later editions sections on gunshot wounds, the plague and\ngangrene were added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Thomae Bartholini [...] Anatomia : Ex Caspari Bartholini Parentis Institutionibus, Omniumque Recentiorum & Propriis 
Observationibus Tertium ad Sanguinis Circulationem Reformata.<\/em>
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
The Hague
YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1666
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
P001403512 <\/p><\/pre>
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In 1652 the Danish mathematician, physician and theologian, Thomas Bartholin, published the first full description of the lymphatic system, a network of blood vessels and lymph nodes that carries fluids from tissues around the body into the blood and vice versa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three years later he published Anatomia<\/em>, which was a reworking of his father Caspar’s Anatomicae institutiones corporis humani<\/em>. He added a large number of illustrations and a section on the circulation of the blood.  This would become one of the most popular anatomical works of the 17th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 A compleat history of druggs : written in French by Monsieur Pomet, Chief Druggist to the present French King ; to which is 
added what is further observable on the same subject, from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort, divided into three classes,
 vegetable, animal and mineral ; With their Use In Physick, Chymistry, Pharmacy, And several other Arts: illustrated with above
 four hundre copper cutts curiously done from the Life ; and an Explanation of their different Names, Places of Growth, and
 Countries from whence they are brought ; the Way to know the True from the False, their Virtues, &c. A Work of very great
 Use and Curiosity. Done into English from the originals.<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
Pierre Pomet
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
London
PUBLISHER<\/strong>
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YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1712
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
P001394378 <\/p><\/pre>
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French apothecary and chief pharmacist to Louis XIV, Pierre Pomet travelled widely to collect plant, animal and mineral specimens, as well as medicinal recipes. In his History<\/em> Pomet lists both local plant, animal and mineral products which can be used for medicine, as well as more exotic ones. They include tobacco, indigo, sugar and opium, as well as ground mummies and unicorn horns!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book includes around 400 prints. Due to its popularity it was\ntranslated into German and English in 1712.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Boerhaave\u2019s Aphorisms: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases. Translated From the Last Edition Printed in Latin
 at Leyden, 1728. With Useful Observations and Explanations<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
Herman Boerhaave <\/strong>
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
London
PUBLISHER<\/strong>
Arthur Bettesworth; C. Hitch; W. Innys; R. Manby
YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1735
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
P001405477 <\/p><\/pre>
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Dutch botanist and chemist Herman Boerhaave is referred to as the father of physiology and as the founder of both clinical teaching and the modern academic hospital. He first described Boerhaave Syndrome, which describes a tear in the oesophagus due to intense vomiting.
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This work 
  
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Uncertainty of the Signs of Death<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
Jacob B. Winslow
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
London
PUBLISHER<\/strong>
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YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1746
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
P001405906 <\/p><\/pre>
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This work by Danish-born French anatomist Jacob Winslow contains stories of people, who were (almost) buried alive, because doctors and others mistook signs of death. Winslow concluded that the putrefaction of the body is the only sure sign of death. He urged surgeons to be wary of operating on someone presumed dead, lest they should become a murderer!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The New Dispensatory [...] Intended as a Correction, and Improvement of Quincy.<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
William Lewis
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
London
PUBLISHER<\/strong>
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YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1753
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
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The New Dispensatory<\/em> deals with all elements of pharmacy,  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
the art of preparing and\ncompounding […] substances for medicinal purposes in a manner\nsuitable to their respective properties and the intention of cure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
It refers to pharmaceutical practices and provides details of\nmedical conditions and the medicines that can be used to treat them.\nIt also gives directions for cheap remedies to be used with the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This work was written to correct and complete the writings of\nanother pharmacist, John Quincy, who died in 1722.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Observations on the Nature and Consequences of Wounds and Contusions of the Head, Fractures of the Skull, Concussions
 of the Brain, etc.<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
Percivall Pott
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
London
PUBLISHERS<\/strong>
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YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1760
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
P001400122 <\/p><\/pre>
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Observations on the Nature and Consequences of Wounds and Contusions of the Head, Fractures of the Skull, Concussions of the Brain, etc. <\/em>by English surgeon Percivall Pott is the first on sports neurology in medical literature. Pott is known as one of the founders of modern orthopaedics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was also important in the development of occupational health, by demonstrating that there was an association between exposure to soot by chimney sweeps and cancer of the scrotum.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His pamphlets were in high demand and would often sell out.\nBetween the 1760s and 1770s, he had over 14 titles in circulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Tabes Dorsalis: or the Cause of Consumption in Young Men and Women<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
Physician of Bristol
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
London
PUBLISHERS<\/strong>
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YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1764
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
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This anonymous medical work, published for bookseller John Lever, describes the causes of consumption as well as its symptoms and precautions.In the print a lady asks a gentleman, both seemingly ill with consumption:
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An Account of the Diseases Which Were Most Frequent in the British Military Hospitals in Germany, From January 1761
 to [...] March 1763. To Which is Added, an Essay on the Means of Preserving the Health of Soldiers, and Conducting 
Military Hospitals<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
Donald Monro
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
London
PUBLISHERS<\/strong>
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YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1764
OBJECT ID<\/strong>
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Scottish physician and medical author Monro was physician to the British forces in Germany during the Seven Years\u2019 War. He would later set up a private practice in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Account of the Diseases<\/em> […]<\/em> documents his time in the military hospital in Germany and was one of the first general treatises on army medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Anatomy of the Human Body: By W. Cheselden, Surgeon to his Majesty's Royal Hospital at Chelsea Fellow of the 
Royal Society and Member of the Royal Academy of Surgeons At Parts. The XIIIth Edition with Forty Copper Plates 
Engrav'd by Ger: Vandergucht.<\/em>
AUTHOR<\/strong>
William Cheselden
PLACE OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
London
PUBLISHERS<\/strong>
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YEAR OF PUBLICATION<\/strong>
1784
OBJECT ID <\/strong>
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Cheselden\u2019s The Anatomy of the Human Body<\/em> was first published in 1713. It became very popular with medical students, as it was written in English instead of Latin, as was customary. The book ran through thirteen editions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cheselden is famous for inventing a quick procedure for removing bladder stones, with a low death rate. He is also credited with being the first to remedy blindness surgically by removing the cloudy cataract lens of a thirteen year old blind boy in 1728.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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