Symptomatic SubjectsIn the period just prior to medicine's modernitybefore the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorization of scientific empiricismEngland was the scene of a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Between the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 and the emergence of printed English books a century and a quarter later, thousands of discrete medical texts were copied, translated, and composed, largely for