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Book Reviews review essay 223 BOOK REVIEWS Roy Porter. Blood and Guts. A Short History of Medicine (New York: Norton, 2002), pp. xviii+199, ills., index $ 13.95 (paper) ISBN 0 393 32569 5. I first met Roy Porter at a conference at the Wellcome Institute in London in 1982, when I was still in graduate school. I was disconcerted to see what looked like a slightly disreputable lounge singer come to the podium, in a midnight blue velveteen suit, shirt open nearly to the waist, exposing a hairy chest draped with heavy jewelry. He had about a three days’ beard and his hair stuck out in a nimbus around his face. He did not look like any historian I had ever known. As I found out that day and later, he was not like any other historian. For one thing, he wrote so much more than anyone else; books, essays, reviews flowed out of him. For another, all of it was original and wonderfully written. Some of it was brilliant. He mostly focused on the eighteenth century—the “long eighteenth century,” which stretched varyingly from the 1650s to the 1830s, but he covered a dizzying array of topics—geology, medicine, psychiatry, sex, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early Science and Medicine Brill

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Early Science and Medicine , Volume 11 (2): 223 – Jan 1, 2006
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© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1383-7427
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review essay 223 BOOK REVIEWS Roy Porter. Blood and Guts. A Short History of Medicine (New York: Norton, 2002), pp. xviii+199, ills., index $ 13.95 (paper) ISBN 0 393 32569 5. I first met Roy Porter at a conference at the Wellcome Institute in London in 1982, when I was still in graduate school. I was disconcerted to see what looked like a slightly disreputable lounge singer come to the podium, in a midnight blue velveteen suit, shirt open nearly to the waist, exposing a hairy chest draped with heavy jewelry. He had about a three days’ beard and his hair stuck out in a nimbus around his face. He did not look like any historian I had ever known. As I found out that day and later, he was not like any other historian. For one thing, he wrote so much more than anyone else; books, essays, reviews flowed out of him. For another, all of it was original and wonderfully written. Some of it was brilliant. He mostly focused on the eighteenth century—the “long eighteenth century,” which stretched varyingly from the 1650s to the 1830s, but he covered a dizzying array of topics—geology, medicine, psychiatry, sex,

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