Explores the rise of popularized medical writings which gave simple advice for home treatments, charting the rise from the Victorian age and focusing on the different experiences of Britain, the Continent and North America.

1. The Varieties of Popular Medicine around 1700: anything new? Andrew Wear 2. Acquiring Surgical Know-How: Occupational and lay instruction in early eighteenth-century London Phillip Wilson 3. Popularization and Vernacular Medicine: The reader and the text Mary Fissel 4. The Popularization of Medicine in France, 1650-1900 Matthew Ramsey 5. The Non-Naturals Made Easy Antoinette Emch-Deriaz 6. Popularizing Medicine During the Spanish Enlightenment Enrique Periguero 7. Tissot as Part of Medical Enlightenment in Hungary Maria Szlatky 8. All those Authors are Foreigners: The Americanization of domestic medical literature Norman Gevitz 9. Mr Scott's Case: A view of London medicine in 1825 Stephen Jacyna