Langstaff : a nineteenth-century medical life / Jacalyn Duffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffin, Jacalyn, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Langstaff, James Miles, 1825-1889.

Langstaff, James Miles.

Medicine--Ontario--Richmond Hill--History--19th century.

Medicine.

Physicians--Ontario--Richmond Hill--Biography.

Physicians.

Ontario--Richmond Hill.

Ontario.

Medical Subjects:

Ontario.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

collective biographies.

Biography

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).

Contents:

Contents

Tables, Figures, and Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE: The Making of a Doctor

CHAPTER TWO: The Professional and Social World of a Nineteenth-Century Doctor

CHAPTER THREE: Medical Knowledge in Diagnosis: Physical Signs at the Bedside

CHAPTER FOUR: Medical Knowledge in Therapy: Old Stand-bys, Innovations, and Intangibles

CHAPTER FIVE: Patients and Their Diseases: Morbidity and Mortality in Children and Adults

CHAPTER SIX: Lunatics, Dreamers, and Drunks

CHAPTER SEVEN: Accidents, Injuries, and Operations: Langstaff's Practice of SurgeryCHAPTER EIGHT: Birthing and Its Problems in Langstaff's Practice of Obstetrics

CHAPTER NINE: Therapy through Social Action: Lawyers, Politics, and Public Health

Conclusion

Appendix A: A Note on Method

Appendix B: Professional Associates of James Miles Langstaff

1 Partners and Medical Students in Langstaff's Practice

2 Women Attendants and 'Nurses' in Langstaff's Practice

3 Medical Colleagues, Location, Qualifications, and Dates

Appendix C: Langstaff's Personal Library and CharitiesAppendix D: Langstaff's Properties

Appendix E: Therapies in Langstaff's Daybooks

1 Langstaff's Pharmacopoeia

2 Dietary and Alcohol-Containing Substances

3 Methods of Bleeding

4 Mechanical Methods

Appendix F: Medical Diagnoses in Langstaff's Daybooks

Notes

List of Manuscript and Printed Sources

Select Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-8958-1

1-282-04554-7

9786612045547

1-4426-7638-8

OCLC:

666916828