The Second Part of the Popular Errors
| Author | : Laurent Joubert |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2007-01-07 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780817354152 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0817354158 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (158 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Second Part of the Popular Errors written by Laurent Joubert and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-01-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation of the second volume of Laurent Joubert’s 1578 French work Erreurs Populaires Joubert proposed to dispel folk remedies and folklore still relied on by doctors and care-givers in France. It also challenged medical theories and advice from classical Greek and Latin writers that French doctors followed uncritically. Gregory de Rocher’s skill as a translator brings this highly readable and very funny book to life. Many topics central to Joubert’s thesis in the 1500s remain contemporary themes in the popular and scholarly literature of the 1980s.
