The Second Part of the Popular Errors
ISBN: 9780817390372
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of Alabama Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Medicine Popular; Medicine Medieval.; Medical misconceptions;

English translation of the second volume of Laurent Joubert's 1578 French work Erreurs Populaires

Joubert proposed to dispel folk remedies and folklore still relied on by doctors and care-givers in France. It also challenged medical theories and advice from classical Greek and Latin writers that French doctors followed uncritically.

Gregory de Rocher's skill as a translator brings this highly readable and very funny book to life. Many topics central to Joubert's thesis in the 1500s remain contemporary themes in the popular and scholarly literature of the 1980s.
Gregory David de Rocher is Professor of Romance Languages and Classics, The University of Alabama

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