Illness and Self-help in Late Eighteenth-Century Rural Switzerland The Strategies of Ulrich Br?ker (1735–1798)

摘要

Based on the journals and the autobiography of Ulrich Br?ker, a Swiss pietist spinner, weaver, and cotton trader of humble origin (the so-called “poor man of Tockenburg”), this article scrutinizes strategies of self-help and health care amongst the rural