Historical Medical Discourse

1. Corpora and the Study of Historical Medical Discourse - Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry, Tony McEnery and Emma Putland; 2. From "I Tried a Purge" to "Experimental Intervention": A Corpus-Based Discourse Study of Depersonalization as a Conceptual Strategy in Medical Writing from 1700 to the Present - Georg Marko; 3. Patterns of Change in Late Modern English Microbiology Texts - Katrin Menzel; 4. The Adaptation of Medical Knowledge in Late-seventeenth- and Early-eighteenth-century Manuscript Household Books - Giulia Rovelli; 5. Gender-Based Evidence of Modalisation and Modulation Strategies in Nineteenth-century Institution English Recipes - Francisco J. Alonso-Almeida; 6. The Role of Personal Pronouns to Express Interpersonality in Women's Recipe Collections - Isabel de la Cruz-Cabanillas; 7. When People Overload The/Their Stomach(s): Non-verbal Plural Number Agreement and Generic Reference in Early and Late Modern Medical Discourse - Karolina Rudnicka and Richard J. Whitt; 8. Sensory Language as a Gateway to Knowledge and Evidence in Early Modern English Midwifery Writing (1540-1800): On Verbs of Tactile Perception - Richard J. Whitt; 9. Midwifery and Medical Writing in 18th-century British Reference Works: A Historical and Diachronic Corpus-Based Study - Elisabetta Lonati; 10. Advertising a Proprietary Medicine: Daffy's Elixir Salutis in Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Advertisements - Carla Suhr; 11. Anti-Vaccination Discourse in Victorian England: Key Semantic Domains and Parallels with Present-Day Anti-Vaccination Arguments - Elena Semino, Derek Gatherer, Tara Coltman-Patel, William Dance, Alice Deignan and Claire Hardaker.