Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820 : a conference held 25 & 26 May 1978 / by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

Series:

• Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 57.
• Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Medicine--Massachusetts--History--17th century--Congresses.
• Medicine--Massachusetts--History--18th century--Congresses.
• History.
• Medicine.
• Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Congresses.
• History of Medicine.
• Massachusetts.

Medical Subjects:

• History of Medicine.
• Massachusetts.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Boston : The Society, 1980.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

• An overview of Massachusetts history to 1820
• The historiography of early American medicine
• Eighteenth-century medicine and the modern physician
• The healing arts in colonial and revolutionary Massachusetts : the context for scientific medicine / Richard D. Brown
• The medical practitioners of Massachusetts, 1630-1800 : patterns of change and continuity / Eric H. Christianson
• The professionalization of Boston medicine, 1760-1803 / Philip Cash
• The influence of Europe on colonial Massachusetts medicine / C. Helen Brock
• The medical profession in colonial Boston / G.B. Warden
• Medicine in Boston and Philadelphia : comparisons and contrasts, 1750-1820 / Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
• The Boston medical community and emerging science, 1780-1820 / John C. Greene
• Charity, medical charity, and dependency in eighteeenth-century Essex County, Massachusetts / Douglas Lamar Jones
• Surgery in Massachusetts, 1620-1800 / WIlliam C. Wigglesworth
• Church record-keeping and public health in early New England / James H. Cassedy
• Botanic remedies in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820 / George E. Gifford, Jr.
• Therapeutic practice in colonial New England / J. Worth Estes.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820.

OCLC:

644297078