The Doctor In Colonial America
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The Doctor In Colonial America
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Author : Zachary Friedenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Doctor In Colonial America written by Zachary Friedenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Medicine categories.
In this book, the author re-creates medicine in the Colonial past. It was a world where surgeons, working at military hospitals, received one and one-third dollars a day for their efforts; where operations, most frequently amputations, were performed without benefit of anesthesia; and where nostalgia was deemed a legitimate diagnosis and was treated as an organic disease during the Revolutionary War. During this time when "antiseptic" was a new word, readers will discover how puritanically minded people were resistant to smallpox inoculations as being against the will of God; about physicians forced to experiment with new vaccines on their own family members for want of other subjects; and even about how best to treat an outbreak of scurvy aboard a slave ship. More than just a historical work, this book examines the medical theories and surgical practices that provided the groundwork for modern medicine.
Doctors
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Author : Leonard Everett Fisher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Doctors written by Leonard Everett Fisher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
Traces the early development of medicine in colonial America and discusses some of the methods and medications used at that time for treating illness.
The Doctor
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Author : Katie Marsico
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2012-01-15
The Doctor written by Katie Marsico and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This fascinating book explores the life of a colonial doctor and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time.
The Doctors
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Doctors written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Medicine categories.
Traces the early development of medicine in colonial America and discusses some of the methods and medications used at that time for treating illness.
Medicine In Colonial America
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Author : Oscar Reiss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Medicine In Colonial America written by Oscar Reiss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
In Medicine in Colonial America, Oscar Reiss recognizes the theories and practices exercised by colonial physicians, and illustrates the gradual evolution of Dark Age medical ignorance to the beginnings of modern-day enlightenment. Reiss identifies the various levels of training for physicians from extensive schooling at respected universities to the informal instruction of mountebanks and quacks. He illustrates the numerous, unorthodox methods including bleeding, vomiting, purging, and cupping, used by both charlatans and educated practitioners alike to treat disease, and weighs the quality of colonial life against the available medical knowledge of the day. Reiss discusses the early attempts to license physicians, competitive pricing of medical service, colonial surgery and early autopsies, and cites important medical breakthroughs and theories. An interesting and informative read, Medicine in Colonial America will be of great value to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and dentists as well as historians.
A Day In The Life Of A Colonial Doctor
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Author : Laurie Krebs
language : en
Publisher: Powerkids Press
Release Date : 2004
A Day In The Life Of A Colonial Doctor written by Laurie Krebs and has been published by Powerkids Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes a day in the life of a doctor in colonial Philadelphia, where he was trained, common ailments and how he treated them, and ways in which he tried to improve conditions for women, slaves, and others.
Colonial American Medicine
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Author : Susan Neiburg Terkel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Colonial American Medicine written by Susan Neiburg Terkel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Medicine categories.
Examines the health risks in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and looks at the questionable, and even dangerous, treatments and remedies available at the time.
Medicine And The American Revolution
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Author : Oscar Reiss, M.D.
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-17
Medicine And The American Revolution written by Oscar Reiss, M.D. and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Health & Fitness categories.
Nearly nine times as many died from diseases during the American Revolution as did from wounds. Poor diet, inadequate sanitation and sometimes a lack of basic medical care caused such diseases as dysentery, scurvy, typhus, smallpox and others to decimate the ranks. Scurvy was a major problem for both the British and American navies, while venereal diseases proved to be a particularly vexing problem in New York. Respiratory diseases, scabies and other illnesses left nearly 4,000 colonial troops unable to fight when George Washington's troops broke camp at Valley Forge in June 1778. From a physician's perspective, this is a unique history of the American Revolution and how diseases impacted the execution of the war effort. The medical histories of Washington and King George III are also provided.
Medicine And Society In America 1660 1860
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Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1960
Medicine And Society In America 1660 1860 written by Richard Harrison Shryock and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Medical categories.
First published in 1960, Richard Harrison Shryock's Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860 remains a sweeping and informative introduction to the practice of medicine, the education of physicians, the understanding of health and disease, and the professionalization of medicine in the Colonial Era and the period of the Early Republic. Shryock details such developments as the founding of the first medical school in America (at the College of Philadelphia in 1765); the introduction of inoculation against smallpox in Boston in 1721; the creation of the Marine Hospital Service in 1799, under which all merchant marines were required to take out health insurance; and the state of medical knowledge on the eve of the Civil War.
Health Care In America
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Author : John C. Burnham
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2015-05-15
Health Care In America written by John C. Burnham and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Medical categories.
A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present. In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century. From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases. Drawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s–1930s), antibiotics (1930s–1950s), technology (1950s–1960s), environmental medicine (1970s–1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to today's radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care. Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.