Doctors on horseback : pioneers of American medicine / by James Thomas Flexner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-2003, author.

Contributor:

Dover Publications, Inc., publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--United States.

Physicians.

United States.

Frontier and pioneer life--United States.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Medicine--United States.

Medicine.

History of Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

History of Medicine.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 338 pages : portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1969.

©1969.

Summary:

This book tells the stories of several early American physicians: John Morgan, William Shippen, Jr., Benjamin Rush, Ephraim McDowell, Daniel Drake, John Lambert Richmond, William Beaumont, Crawford W. Long and William T.G. Morton.

Contents:

Seer and Continental soldier, John Morgan.

Saint or scourge, Benjamin Rush.

A backwoods Galahad, Ephraim McDowell.

Genius on the Ohio, Daniel Drake.

Two men and destiny, William Beaumont.

The death of pain, Crawford W. Long [and] William T.G. Morton.

Notes:

"Copyright ©1969 by James Thomas Flexner"--verso of title page.

"This Dover edition, first published in 1968, is an unabridged republication of the work oiginally published by The Viking Press, New York, in 1937 ... also incorporates, with slight alteration, the Introduction and the Additional Bibliographies prepared for the edition ... in 1962 by Collier Books"--verso of title page

Advertisements: [17] pages at end, plus inside front and back covers.

"Selected bibliographies": pages 321-330 and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Other Format:

Online version: Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-2003. Doctors on horseback.

ISBN:

0486221784

9780486221786

OCLC:

597