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By Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta
Clinical writing tells us very much approximately how the language of technological know-how has constructed in developing and speaking wisdom in English. This quantity presents a brand new standpoint at the evolution of the particular language of drugs, in accordance with the digital corpus of Early smooth English scientific Texts, containing over million phrases of clinical writing from 1500 to 1700. The e-book offers effects from large-scale empirical learn at the new fabrics and offers a extra specific and various photo of domain-specific advancements than any earlier booklet. 3 introductory chapters give you the sociohistorical, disciplinary and textual body for 9 empirical stories, which handle various key matters in a large choice of clinical genres from clean angles. The publication turns out to be useful for researchers and scholars inside of a number of fields, together with the improvement of targeted languages, style and sign up research, (historical) corpus linguistics, ancient pragmatics, and scientific and cultural heritage.
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3 give an overview of medical literature throughout the two-century period. 4 introduces the Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMTâ•›), a computer-readable text collection designed to facilitate research on printed medical texts of the period and used as primary material in the studies in this book. 2â•… Printing and manuscript circulation Dissemination of medical knowledge underwent major changes in the early modern period. The advent of printing introduced a new technology that enabled the production of multiple copies of a text more quickly and more cheaply than had been possible with copying by hand.
2 Medical publication represented a very small part of publishing overall to 1604, perhaps 3 per cent, and the numbers of copies in circulation printed in England were probably swamped by books printed on the Continent and imported to England, mostly in Latin rather than English. The output of English medical titles and editions was spread unevenly over time. The number of medical editions printed in each quinquennium doubled from a previous peak of ten to twenty in 1536–40, and thereafter tended to rise.
Medical texts in 1500–1700â•… 13 is more continuity between the medical writings in circulation in manuscript before 1500 and medical writing in print after 1500 than might be assumed. 3 The other categories are works on anatomy and surgery, reflections on theory and practice, herbals, plague tracts, other specific diseases and single or specialized remedies. These are categories that apply to late medieval medical writing just as readily. Most of them are, in effect, long-established ‘genres’ of medical writing, in which reprinting of long-favoured texts was the norm and novelty rare.