13 mai 2019
willparker, « Dr Willis: The Cure to the King’s Madness or his Personal Torturer? », Digital Recipe Books Project, ID : 10670/1.m7si4d
Earlier in the year, I transcribed a number of King George III’s menus from February 1789. In each instance, the title of ‘Dr Willis’s servant’ appeared, prompting me to investigate who this Dr Willis was. With this motivation too, I decided to explore Willis’s life and the treatment he conducted on the king, viewing this in the context of late eighteenth-century medicine. This idea of medicine was largely based on older religious and humoral ideas, shortly before the medical revolutions of t...