Download or read book Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque Physician written by Brian Nance and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty years, Theodore Turquet de Mayerne served as a royal physician in France and then in England. Historians have long recognised him as a brilliant practitioner and chemical Galenist, but this book is the first major study of his remarkable Latin casebooks, the ‘Ephemerides Morborum’ (Diaries of Disease).