Elizabeth Lane Furdell The Royal Doctors 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts.

Elizabeth Lane Furdell The Royal Doctors 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts. Rochester: University of Rochester Pres 2001 Pp x 305 $6500 ISBN 1-58046-051-8

Furdell's novel book is a surprising offering, united that may well, because it doesn't quite fit into conventional categories, slip below the radar of scholars and general readers alike. This would be unfortunate, since Royal Doctors is also an admirable and rewarding piece of work, and especially valuable for English historians who wish to know more about the diversity of medicine and its

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