Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820

Irma Taavitsainen is Professor Emerita of English Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on historical pragmatics, corpus linguistics, genre and register variation and the evolution of scientific thought styles in medical writing. Jeremy Smith is Professor Emeritus of English philology at Glasgow University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His interests include English historical linguistics, the history of Scots, and book history. Recent publications include Transforming Early English (2020). Carla Suhr is University Lecturer in English Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on early modern English medical writing and early news discourse. She is a co-compiler of the early and late modern components of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (2010, 2019). Turo Hiltunen is University Lecturer in English at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has authored several studies on corpus pragmatics, corpus compilation, phraseology, and the language of science and medicine.

• List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Medical discourse and sociocultural contexts 1500–1820 Irma Taavitsainen, Jeremy J. Smith, Turo Hiltunen and Carla Suhr; 2. John Arderne's afterlife in manuscript and print Peter Murray Jones; 3. John Mirfield's Regimen of Health Lori Jones; 4. Surgical handbooks translate into Low German Chiara Benati; 5. Tracing the early modern John of Burgundy Alpo Honkapohja; 6. The plague in Southern Italy 1815–6 Alberto Tanturri; 7. On Excitability Jeremy J. Smith; 8. Systems and centos: Some eighteenth-century dictionaries Roderick McConchie; 9. Medical vocabulary in English Romantic literature Jeremy J. Smith; 10. Foreign ingredients in Early Modern English recipes Isabel de la Cruz-Cabanillas; 11. Walter Bailey's medical genres Irma Taavitsainen; 12. London bills of mortality in the seventeenth century Maura Ratia; 13. Advertising proprietary medicines in pamphlets Carla Suhr; 14. Persuasion in Hungarian medical recipes Agnes Kuna; 15. Persuasion in Early Modern English medical recipes Martti Mäkinen; 16. Richard III: Fact, Myth, Fiction Anna Ilona Rajala and Timo Uotinen; 17. Images and paratexts Peter Murray Jones; Preface to the image gallery Peter Murray Jones; Index.