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Lotions, potions, pills, and magic : health care in early America / Elaine G. Breslaw.
LIBRA R152 .B725 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breslaw, Elaine G., 1932-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--United States--History--18th century.
- Medicine.
- Public health.
- History.
- Physicians.
- Medical care.
- United States.
- Medicine--United States--History--19th century.
- Medical care--United States--History--18th century.
- Medical care--United States--History--19th century.
- Physicians--United States--History--18th century.
- Physicians--United States--History--19th century.
- Public health--United States--History--18th century.
- Public health--United States--History--19th century.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Columbian Exchange
- Epidemics
- Tools of the Trade
- Abundance
- Wartime
- New Nation
- Giving Birth
- The Face of Madness
- Democratic Medicine
- Public Health
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814787175
- 0814787177
- 9780814787182
- 0814787185
- 9780814739389
- 0814739385
- OCLC:
- 768793108
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