«Air, Climate, Season, … Situation, Food, Poisons, and a few other Things»1: the lexis of fevers and epidemics in British medical writing, 1770-1800

Medical reports on fevers and epidemics are an interesting research field for investigating eighteenth-century medical language. The works under scrutiny here are focused on epidemic outbreaks which were widespread especially in large and medium towns. They provide linguistic evidence for the many p...

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Main Author: Elisabetta Lonati
Format: article
Language:EN
FR
IT
Published: Firenze University Press 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/cf45b804e7e84e4e820ea5e8c838ec02
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