Prayer and physic in seventeenth-century England

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dc.contributor.authorKASSELL, Lauren
dc.contributor.authorRALLEY, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-05T11:00:42Z
dc.date.available2022-01-05T11:00:42Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionPublished online: 15 December 2021en
dc.description.abstractHistorians have often represented prayer as an instrumental response to illness. We argue instead that prayer, together with physic, was part of larger regimes to preserve health and prevent disease. We focus on early modern England, through the philosophical writings of the physician, Robert Fludd, and the medical records of the clergyman, Richard Napier. Fludd depicted health as a fortress and illness as an invasion by demons; the physician counsels the patient in maintaining and restoring moral and bodily order. Napier documented actual uses of prayer. As in Fludd’s trope, through prayer, Napier and his patients enacted their aspiration for health and their commitment to a Christian order in which medicine only worked if God so willed it. Prayer, like physic, was a key part of a regime that the wise practitioner aimed to provide for his patients, and that they expected to receive from him.en
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dc.identifier.citationEarly science and medicine, 2021, Vol. 26, No. 5-6, pp. 480–508en
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15733823-12340030
dc.identifier.endpage508en
dc.identifier.issn1573-3823
dc.identifier.issn1383-7427
dc.identifier.issue5-6en
dc.identifier.startpage480en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/73486
dc.identifier.volume26en
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dc.publisherBrillen
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dc.titlePrayer and physic in seventeenth-century Englanden
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