Medicine at the Courts of Europe

Vivian Nutton

List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. De Morbis Aulicis: on Disease Found at Court 2. Medicine at the Papal Court in the Sixteenth Century 3. The Court Physician and Paracelsianism 4. Prince-Practitioning and the Direction of Medical Roles at the German Court: Maurice of Hesse-Kassel and his Physicians 5. The Literary Image of the Médicins du Roi in the Literature of the Grand Siècle 6. Court Physicians and State Regulation in Eighteenth Century Prussia: The Emergence of Medical Science and the Demystification of the Body 7. Medicine at the Court of Catherine the Great of Russia 8. The Mèdicins du Roi at the End of the Ancien Régime and in the French Revolution 9. Medicine at the English Court, 1688-1837 Index