Bibliography

Important works reflecting on the history of proprietary medicines in early modern England include:

• Juanita Burnby, A Study of the English Apothecary from 1660 to 1760 (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983);
• Harold J. Cook, The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986);
• Harold J. Cook, Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: James Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994);
• Jordan Goodman, 'Excitantia, Or, How Enlightenment Europe Took to Soft Drugs', in Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy and Andrew Sherratt (eds.), Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology (London: Routledge, 1995), 126-47;
• B. Holmstedt and G. Liljestrand (eds.), Readings in Pharmacology (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1963);
• Michael Hunter, 'Boyle versus the Galenists: A Suppressed Critique of Seventeenth-Century Medical Practice and its Significance', in Michael Hunter, Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2000);
• Mark Jenner, 'Quackery and Enthusiasm, or Why Drinking Water Cured the Plague', in Ole Peter Grell & Andrew Cunningham (eds), Religio Medici: Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996), 313-39;
• Andreas-Holger Maehle, Drugs on Trial: Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth Century (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B. V., 1999);
• William R. Newman and Lawrence Principe, Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002);
• Roy Porter, Quacks: Fakers and Charlatans in English Medicine (Stroud: Tempus Publishing: 2000): first published in 1989 by Manchester University Press as Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1650-1850; Roy Porter and G. S. Rousseau, Gout: The Patrician Malady (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998);
• F. N. L. Poynter (ed.), The Evolution of Pharmacy in Britain (London: Pitman Medical, 1965);
• L. Richmond, J. Stevenson, A. Turton (eds.), The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003);
• C. J. S. Thompson, The Quacks of Old London (London: Brentano's, 1928);
  Andrew Wear, Health and Healing in Early Modern England (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1998);
• Charles Webster, The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform, 1626-1660. (London: Gerald Duckworth, 1975).

Recent relevant work on business history and the early modern 'commercial revolution' in Britain include:

• Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger (eds.), Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003);
• John Brewer and Roy Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods (London: Routledge, 1993);
• Richard Grassby, The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995);
• Perry Gauci, The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchants in State and Society, 1660-1720 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001);
• N. McKendrick, J. Brewer, J. H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (London: Europa Publications, 1982);
• J. Styles, 'Product Innovation in Early Modern London', Past and Present, 168 (2000), 124-69; Lorna Weatherill, Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760 (London: Routledge. 2nd edn, 1996).

Other works cited:

• Michael Hunter & Edward B. Davis (eds.),
• The Works of Robert Boyle (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999-2000);
• Everard Maynwaringe, The Pharmacopœian Physician's Repository (London, 1670);
• William R. Newman, Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994);
• William Stukeley, Of the Spleen, its Description and History, Uses and Diseases (London, 1722).