Peter Elmer is a historian of early modern Britain and taught for seventeen years at the Open University before becoming a research fellow at Exeter University. There, along with his colleague Jonathan Barry, he was engaged in a five-year project entitled 'The Medical World of Early Modern England, Ireland and Wales, c.1500-1715', a large prosopographical study of the medical 'profession'. He is retired but remains busy working on a large online database of medical practitioners.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Premature Death of a Renaissance Commonplace: the Body Politic in Puritan England, 1640-1660 3: Providing 'Physick for the Body Politick': The Politicisation of Healers and Healing in England, 1640-1660 4: 'By Virtue of Our Hermetick Physick, the Head, Heart, and Hands of Hierophants Might be Purified': The Society of Chemical Physicians and Medical Reform in Restoration England 5: Healers and Healing in the First Age of Party: Medicine, Politics, and Dissent 6: 'Every Corporation a Politick Pest-House': Medicine, Anglicanism, and the Tory Reaction, 1660-1688 7: Conclusion Appendix 1: A biographical index of signatories in favour of the creation of a Society of Chymical Physicians (1665) Appendix 2: (a) ejected ministers and the practise of medicine; (b) sons of ejected ministers and the practise of medicine; (c) sons of ejected ministers apprenticed to London apothecaries Appendix 3: List of medical mayors

Peter Elmer is a historian of early modern Britain and taught for seventeen years at the Open University before becoming a research fellow at Exeter University. There, along with his colleague Jonathan Barry, he was engaged in a five-year project entitled 'The Medical World of Early Modern England, Ireland and Wales, c.1500-1715', a large prosopographical study of the medical 'profession'. He is retired but remains busy working on a large online database of medical practitioners.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Premature Death of a Renaissance Commonplace: the Body Politic in Puritan England, 1640-1660 3: Providing 'Physick for the Body Politick': The Politicisation of Healers and Healing in England, 1640-1660 4: 'By Virtue of Our Hermetick Physick, the Head, Heart, and Hands of Hierophants Might be Purified': The Society of Chemical Physicians and Medical Reform in Restoration England 5: Healers and Healing in the First Age of Party: Medicine, Politics, and Dissent 6: 'Every Corporation a Politick Pest-House': Medicine, Anglicanism, and the Tory Reaction, 1660-1688 7: Conclusion Appendix 1: A biographical index of signatories in favour of the creation of a Society of Chymical Physicians (1665) Appendix 2: (a) ejected ministers and the practise of medicine; (b) sons of ejected ministers and the practise of medicine; (c) sons of ejected ministers apprenticed to London apothecaries Appendix 3: List of medical mayors

Peter Elmer is a historian of early modern Britain and taught for seventeen years at the Open University before becoming a research fellow at Exeter University. There, along with his colleague Jonathan Barry, he was engaged in a five-year project entitled 'The Medical World of Early Modern England, Ireland and Wales, c.1500-1715', a large prosopographical study of the medical 'profession'. He is retired but remains busy working on a large online database of medical practitioners.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Premature Death of a Renaissance Commonplace: the Body Politic in Puritan England, 1640-1660 3: Providing 'Physick for the Body Politick': The Politicisation of Healers and Healing in England, 1640-1660 4: 'By Virtue of Our Hermetick Physick, the Head, Heart, and Hands of Hierophants Might be Purified': The Society of Chemical Physicians and Medical Reform in Restoration England 5: Healers and Healing in the First Age of Party: Medicine, Politics, and Dissent 6: 'Every Corporation a Politick Pest-House': Medicine, Anglicanism, and the Tory Reaction, 1660-1688 7: Conclusion Appendix 1: A biographical index of signatories in favour of the creation of a Society of Chymical Physicians (1665) Appendix 2: (a) ejected ministers and the practise of medicine; (b) sons of ejected ministers and the practise of medicine; (c) sons of ejected ministers apprenticed to London apothecaries Appendix 3: List of medical mayors