http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/
SITE UPDATE, WITH ANIMATED FILM
The Casebooks Project website has been updated, including a short
animated film about the project. New features include an at-a-glance
guide to searching and a day with the astrologers.
RELEASE 7
Release 7 includes images to accompany our transcriptions of the first
six volumes of Napier's casebooks - MSS Ashmole 175 (1597), 182
(1597-8), 228 (1598-1600), 202 (1600), 404 (1601-2) and 221 (1602-3). An
archive of a further six volumes of images - MSS Ashmole 174 (various
dates), 181 (various dates), 204 (various dates), 239 (1610-11), 237
(1614-15), and 238 (1630) - has also been released, together with
calendar entries listing salient details of all the cases recorded in
them.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Lauren Kassell will give the Gideon de Laune Lecture at the Worshipful
Society of Apothecaries of London on Tuesday, 28 January at 6 pm, under
the title 'And the doctor noted her words': Medical Casebooks in
Shakespeare's England. For further information and registration details
see:
http://www.apothecaries.org/faculty-of-the-history-philosophy-of-medicin
e-parm/eponymous-lectures/.
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Visit http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ for the latest updates
to the Casebooks Project: A Digital Edition of Simon Forman's and
Richard Napier's Medical Records
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Dr Lauren Kassell
Department of History & Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge
Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RH www.hps.cam.ac.uk
+44 1223 767173
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Pembroke College
Cambridge CB2 1RF
www.pem.cam.ac.uk
+44 1223 330897
