The Improved American Family Physician
Author | : L. Meeker Day |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Materia medica |
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Author | : L. Meeker Day |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Materia medica |
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Author | : L. Meeker Day |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2017-12-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780484449427 |
Excerpt from The Improved American Family Physician, or Sick Man's Guide to Health: Containing a Complete Theory of the Botanic Practice of Medicine, on the Thomsonian and Hygeian System, With Alterations and Improvements It may be alleged, said Dr. Buchan, that laying medicine more open to mankind would lessen their faith in it. This indeed would be the case with regard to some, but it would have a quite contrary effect upon others. I know many people who have the utmost dread and horror of every thing prescribed by a physician, who will, nevertheless, very readily take a medicine which they know, and whose quali ties they are in some measure acquainted with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : L. Meeker Day |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1833 |
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Author | : L. Meeker Day |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Medicine, Botanic |
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Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1080 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Incunabula |
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Author | : Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Incunabula |
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Total Pages | : 1102 |
Release | : 1880 |
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Author | : John S. Haller |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Alternative medicine |
ISBN | : 9780809323395 |
Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought to release patients from the harsh bleeding or purging regimens of regular physicians by offering inexpensive and gentle medicines from their own fields and gardens. He melded his followers into a militant corps of dedicated believers, using them to successfully lobby state legislatures to pass medical acts favorable to their cause. John S. Haller Jr. points out that Thomson began his studies by ministering to his own family. He started his professional career as an itinerant healer traveling a circuit among the small towns and villages of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Eventually, he transformed his medical practice into a successful business enterprise with agents selling several hundred thousand rights or franchises to his system. His popular New Guide to Health (1822) went through thirteen editions, including one in German, and countless thousands were reprinted without permission. Told here for the first time, Haller's history of Thomsonism recounts the division within this American medical sect in the last century. While many Thomsonians displayed a powerful, vested interest in anti-intellectualism, a growing number found respectability through the establishment of medical colleges and a certified profession of botanical doctors. The People's Doctors covers seventy years, from 1790, when Thomson began his practice on his own family, until 1860, when much of Thomson's medical domain had been captured by the more liberal Eclectics. Eighteen halftones illustrate this volume.
Author | : Christopher Hoolihan |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781580460989 |
This is a catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of rare books dealing with "popular medicine" in early America which is housed at the University of Rochester Medical School library. The books described in the catalogue were written by physicians and other professionals to provide information for the non-medical audience. The books taught human anatomy, hygiene, temperance and diet, how to maintain health, and how to cope with illness especially when no professional help was available. The books promoted a healthy lifestyle for the readers, giving guidance on everything from physical fitness and recreation to the special health needs of women. The collection consists of works dealing with reproduction [from birth control to delivering and caring for a baby], venereal disease, home-nursing, epidemics, and the need for public sex education. These books, covering areas largely ignored by the medical profession, made important contributions to the health of the American public, and the collection is a vital piece of medical history. The collector is Edward C. Atwater, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and the History of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School. Christopher Hoolihan is History of Medicine Librarian at the University of Rochester Medical School's Edward G. Miner LIbrary.
Author | : Rosemary Stevens |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780520210097 |
This reissue offers an opportunity to consider the state of the American health care system. The text chronicles the development of the medical profession and shows how increasing emphasis on specialization has influenced medical education and public policy. It details specialization's effects on health care costs and on health care providers, as well as the implications of technology and the resulting ethical dilemmas, the issues of insurance, and many people's limited access to care.