Medicine In Colonial America

Author : Oscar Reiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine in Colonial America written by Oscar Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Oscar Reiss, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604959
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and the American Revolution written by Oscar Reiss, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charlie Samuel
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823965984
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine in Colonial America written by Charlie Samuel and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses various ways settlers and Native Americans practiced medicine during colonial times, describing diseases, supplies, and common practices.

Author : Zachary Friedenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctor in Colonial America written by Zachary Friedenberg and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429661402
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cold, Hard Facts about Science and Medicine in Colonial America written by Elizabeth Raum and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes life in the American colonies, focusing on beliefs related to science and medicine"--

Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801490934
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860 written by Richard Harrison Shryock and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christine Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533136954
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to 18th Century Military Medicine in Colonial America written by Christine Miller and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet is a guide to military medicine in colonial America during the 18th century. It examines the common practices and treatments as well as the notable people involved in developing military medicine through the American Revolution

Author : Susan Neiburg Terkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780531125397
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial American Medicine written by Susan Neiburg Terkel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine in Colonial America written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Duffy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804616645
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epidemics in Colonial America written by John Duffy and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: