Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse

Following from the popularizing work of Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), who published an unauthorized translation of the Royal College of Physicians’ Pharmacopoeia in 1649, the late seventeenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of vernacular medical texts, many of which were translations. As the sources of most of these texts had been published in Latin by some of the most important medical authors of the time with the intent of circulating them only among the European