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DESCRIPTION:Keynote address given by Lauren Kassell\, Professor of History 
 of Science and Medicine\, University of Cambridge for the Angelical Conjun
 ctions: Crossroads of Medicine and Religion\, 1200-1800 Conference.\n\nDes
 cription: Robert Fludd\, the seventeenth-century English physician whose e
 laborate images regularly adorn histories of science\, depicted health as 
 a fortress. In the centre\, a man kneels in prayer\, with an angel station
 ed at each of the four turrets defending him from the disease-bearing wind
 s propelled by demons from the north\, south\, east and west. In a sister 
 image\, demons have broached one of the turrets\, and the man at prayer no
 w reclines in bed\, attended by a physician who feels his pulse and inspec
 ts a flask of his urine. If angels guard health and demons cause disease\,
  what is the relationship between prayer and physic? When and why should\,
  according to Fludd and his colleagues\, the doctor be called—and when wer
 e doctors actually consulted? This talk considers the relationship between
  medicine and religion through case studies from early modern England. It 
 contrasts Fludd’s philosophical writings with the daily practices of Richa
 rd Napier\, the astrologer-physician\, to think about recurring themes in 
 the histories of medicine and religion: relations between spiritual and ma
 terial bodies\, alignments between theory and practice\, shared and compet
 ing understandings between patients and practitioners. Through the English
  examples\, and their particular inflection of what we might call medical 
 demonology\, it considers broader lessons for histories where religion and
  medicine meet.\n\n\nThe keynote lecture will be followed by an exhibition
  of rare books from the collection of the Osler Library of the History of 
 Medicine.\n
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LOCATION:Rare Books and Special Collections\, 4th floor\, Colgate Room\, Mc
 Lennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:‘Universal medicine’: Lessons from seventeenth-century England
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