“We did not all dye thereof”: chemical medicine and the shut house in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610) and Mary Trye’s Medicatrix (1675)

Kathleen Miller

doi:10.5040/9781350425101.ch-6

“We did not all dye thereof”: chemical medicine and the shut house in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610) and Mary Trye’s Medicatrix (1675)

Kathleen Miller

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Care and contagion in Shakespeare’s changing world
Editors	Darryl Chalk , Rebecca Totaro
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing
Chapter	6
Pages	111–130
ISBN (Electronic)	9781350425095
ISBN (Print)	9781350425071
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350425101.ch-6
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2025

Keywords

chemical medicine
The Alchemist
Shakespeare

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“We did not all dye thereof”: chemical medicine and the shut house in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610) and Mary Trye’s Medicatrix (1675). / Miller, Kathleen.
Care and contagion in Shakespeare’s changing world. ed. / Darryl Chalk ; Rebecca Totaro . Bloomsbury Publishing , 2025. p. 111–130.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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