Anne Stobart is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK and former Director of Programmes in Complementary Health Sciences and Programme Leader of the BSc in Herbal Medicine at Middlesex University, UK. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Journal of Herbal Medicine and chairs the Herbal History Research Network. Anne writes for the Recipes Hypotheses blog which brings together an international group of scholars writing on the history of recipes. She is a founder of the Holt Wood project on sustainable cultivation and harvest of medicinal trees and shrubs. She is the recipient of the prestigious Leslie Matthews Medal, which was awarded to her by the British Society for the History of Pharmacy for original and scholarly work in the history of pharmacy.

Stobart’s sources are … exceptionally well chosen, and the author makes very good use of the letters, pieces of advice, recipe books, descriptions of gifts sent and received, prescriptive instruction, and household accounts that have survived in each family’s papers.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Household Health Care MattersSection 1: Information1. 'The danger is over': News About the Sick2. Medicines or Remedies: Recipes for Health and IllnessSection 2: Resources3. Early Modern Spending on Health Care4. Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Medicinal Ingredients5. 'For to make the ointment': Kitchen PhysickSection 3: Practice 6. Therapeutics in the Family7. 'I troble noe body with my Complaints': Chronic DisordersConclusionAppendix of Household AccountsGlossary of IngredientsBibliographyIndex

Anne Stobart is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK and former Director of Programmes in Complementary Health Sciences and Programme Leader of the BSc in Herbal Medicine at Middlesex University, UK. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Journal of Herbal Medicine and chairs the Herbal History Research Network. Anne writes for the Recipes Hypotheses blog which brings together an international group of scholars writing on the history of recipes. She is a founder of the Holt Wood project on sustainable cultivation and harvest of medicinal trees and shrubs. She is the recipient of the prestigious Leslie Matthews Medal, which was awarded to her by the British Society for the History of Pharmacy for original and scholarly work in the history of pharmacy.

Stobart’s sources are … exceptionally well chosen, and the author makes very good use of the letters, pieces of advice, recipe books, descriptions of gifts sent and received, prescriptive instruction, and household accounts that have survived in each family’s papers.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Household Health Care MattersSection 1: Information1. 'The danger is over': News About the Sick2. Medicines or Remedies: Recipes for Health and IllnessSection 2: Resources3. Early Modern Spending on Health Care4. Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Medicinal Ingredients5. 'For to make the ointment': Kitchen PhysickSection 3: Practice 6. Therapeutics in the Family7. 'I troble noe body with my Complaints': Chronic DisordersConclusionAppendix of Household AccountsGlossary of IngredientsBibliographyIndex

Anne Stobart is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK and former Director of Programmes in Complementary Health Sciences and Programme Leader of the BSc in Herbal Medicine at Middlesex University, UK. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Journal of Herbal Medicine and chairs the Herbal History Research Network. Anne writes for the Recipes Hypotheses blog which brings together an international group of scholars writing on the history of recipes. She is a founder of the Holt Wood project on sustainable cultivation and harvest of medicinal trees and shrubs. She is the recipient of the prestigious Leslie Matthews Medal, which was awarded to her by the British Society for the History of Pharmacy for original and scholarly work in the history of pharmacy.

Stobart’s sources are … exceptionally well chosen, and the author makes very good use of the letters, pieces of advice, recipe books, descriptions of gifts sent and received, prescriptive instruction, and household accounts that have survived in each family’s papers.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Household Health Care MattersSection 1: Information1. 'The danger is over': News About the Sick2. Medicines or Remedies: Recipes for Health and IllnessSection 2: Resources3. Early Modern Spending on Health Care4. Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Medicinal Ingredients5. 'For to make the ointment': Kitchen PhysickSection 3: Practice 6. Therapeutics in the Family7. 'I troble noe body with my Complaints': Chronic DisordersConclusionAppendix of Household AccountsGlossary of IngredientsBibliographyIndex