Abstract EN:

This thesis uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the structure of the medical world and the development of theory and therapeutic practices in Great-Britain at the beginning of the eighteenth century, as well as how doctors, diseases and remedies are represented in the works of Fielding and Hogarth and in the Gentlman's magazine. Concentrating particularly on the medical writing of Cheyne and Mead, Chambers' Cyclopaedia and the Philosophical transactions, and on major illnesses, such as small pox, consumption, syphilis, hysteria and scurvy.