TY - GEN AU - Newton,Hannah TI - Chapter 4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg': convalescent care in early modern England SN - 9781526113498 PY - 2017/// PB - Manchester University Press KW - Italy KW - bicssc KW - Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 KW - Social & cultural history KW - History of medicine KW - convalescence KW - recovery KW - non-naturals KW - diet KW - passions of the soul KW - excretion KW - exercise KW - nature KW - early-modern england KW - medical advice KW - Digestion KW - Early modern period KW - Humorism KW - Physician KW - Relapse KW - Sanatorium N1 - Open Access N2 - "Very little is known about early modern approaches to convalescence and the author investigates the measures were taken by physicians and laypeople to restore health after illness. Drawing on medical texts, regimens, letters, and diaries, this chapter shows that the treatment of the convalescent differed both from the care of the sick and the healthy. It shows the vital place of the non-naturals in early modern medicine, and the role played by 'Nature', understood as the body's principal agent and governor in physiological processes. The author finds that the 'six non-natural things' were on the one hand used as a way of gauging the extent of recovery, and on the other, were manipulated in a therapeutic role to ensure that both strength and flesh were restored. Thus, any remaining humours which might cause a relapse must be evacuated: good sleep, improved appetite and an ability to exercise were all signs of improvement but each, managed appropriately, also helped to restore strength, whilst negative emotions could endanger recovery and in its place cheerfulness -which was a restorative-must be encouraged." UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31265/1/633232.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31265/1/633232.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31265/1/633232.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29695 ER -