The alchemy of medicine and print

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin

Foreword
Michael Lyons

Introduction: the intellectual alchemy of medicine and print
Danielle Westerhof

Part I: Edward Worth and his milieu

Men of varying means
Lisa Lambert

Edward Worth and his library
Davis Coakley

Part 2: Libraries and the pursuit of knowledge

Some private libraries in early eighteenth-century Ireland
Charles Benson

Medicine in print in the early modern period: medical books in Marsh’s Library, Dublin
Jean-Paul Pittion

The sceptical collector: alchemy and chemistry in early modern Irish medical libraries
Elizabethanne Boran

Part 3: Printing and the dissemination of knowledge

Universal language (1641) to universal war (1814): a reading of Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage
Bill Mc Cormack

Robert Boyle and the uses of print
Michael Hunter

Vesalius, the book and the bones
Sachiko Kusukawa

Syphilis (morbus gallicus) in print before 1733 in the Edward Worth collection, Dublin
Magdalena Kozluk

Part 4: Health, regimen and healing knowledge

Petrus de Crescentiis’ Ruralia commoda: a medieval agricultural ‘regimen sanitatis’?
Danielle Westerhof

Philosophical regimen and problematic identity in the healer: Hippocrates to Avicenna
Ilham Ibnou-Zahir

Medicina mentis: medicine and the origins of modern philosophy
Howard Caygill