In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry. Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.
A man with a hidden past doles out a dangerous dose of frontier medicine in this new western in Ralph Compton's Gunfighter series.
LOTIONS , POTIONS , AND DEADLY ELIXIRS as a diuretic for swelling feet and legs , as an emetic , and to treat epileptic seizures , tuberculosis , and constipation . It was also applied topically to burns . A tonic containing foxglove ...
From a headless burial to cocaine toothache drops, the true stories hidden in the Wild West's medical records are a match for its tallest tales.
Frontier Medicine: Practicioners, Practices and Remedies on America's First Frontier, Northeast Tennessee, 1770-1850
Bleed, Blister, and Purge traces the fits and starts of medical progress on the western frontier. With the authority of a scholar and the sparkle of an old-time storyteller, Dr....
The type of childhood lymphoma that struck my young patient when I was a medical student is now a manageable illness with survival rates of 80 percent and more. ... Hepatitis B or C viruses increase the risk of primary ...
This book contains personal accounts from doctors, researchers, and patients--self-proclaimed "refugees" seeking treatment unavailable elsewhere--who are at the forefront of medical marijuana practice.
Traces the development of the healing art with such related factors and facets as hospitals, apothecaries, medicines, equipment, nursing and midwifery.
Two years out of Johns Hopkins Medical School, Robert Ecke found himself at Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital on the island of Twillingate, Newfoundland. Practicing a form of frontier medicine,...
On the Social Frontier of Medicine: Pioneering in Medical Social Service