Recipe collections and the currency of medical knowledge in the early modern ‘medical marketplace’

Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 133-152

  Leong, Elaine ^a   Pennell, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230591462_7     Document Type: Chapter

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