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Article: Brian Nance. Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque Physician: the Art of Medical Portraiture.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2003
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(Clio Medica 65. The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine.) New York: Editions Ridopi B.V. 2001. Pp. xiii, 237. $23.00 paper. ISBN 90-420-1131-9.
Brian Nance has scrutinized the extensive Latin casebooks of Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, for fifty years a doctor to the royal families of France and England. Mayerne's Ephemerides Morborum (Diaries of Disease) chronicle his diagnoses, prognoses, and therapeutics in eighteen handwritten volumes that thoroughly cover the years from 1603 to the mid-1630s and more sporadically until 1653. Nance believes that the casebooks served as an medium of deliberation for Mayerne, a touchstone for his clinical observations. ...