
Episode 154: English Equality
The History of English Podcast
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Medical Books in English
Medical books in english were very popular at the time because people wanted to be able to diagnose and treat illnesses at home if they could. But trained physicians generally opposed such books in english because they thought that common people would not know what they were doing. Many of those doctors wanted medical guides to be composed in latin or greek, but that created a perception that doctors were trying to hide their medical knowledge from the general public. In fact, even though he embraced the idea of using classical languages,rew bord was a bit of a rustic compared with traditionalists. So we see an early tension here between the use of latin and greek on the one hand, and the use
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