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Bleed, blister, and purge : a history of medicine on the American frontier / Volney Steele.
Van Pelt Library R154.5.W47 S74 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steele, Volney, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--West (U.S.)--History.
- Medicine.
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Medicine--History.
- History of Medicine.
- Physicians--history.
- Delivery of Health Care--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- history of medicine.
- West United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Medicine.
- Physicians--history.
- Delivery of Health Care--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 367 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 33 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2005.
- Summary:
- "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. Volney Steele takes the reader from rotgut whiskey to modern anesthetics, from castor oil to antibiotics, and from barroom surgery to modern hospital operations. Citing everything from government reports to first-person remembrances, combined with his own sensitive interpretations, the author creates a full, clear, and colorful picture of illness and the healing arts in the old West.
- Contents:
- The metamorphosis of American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century Part 1: Old West Healers and Healing
- Indian Medicine: Native American Health Before and After the White Man
- Lewis and Clark: Keelboat Physicians
- Mountain Men: Hunting-Knife Surgeons
- Health on the Western Trails: Hope and Suffering
- Gold Camp Sawbones: Life and Death in the Western Mining Districts
- Unsung Heroes: Army Surgeons on the Frontier
- Granny Remedies: Pioneer Women and Folk Medicine
- Miracle Cures: Quackery, Fraud, and Faith
- Homestead Doctors: House Calls on the Great Plains
- No Prejudice Against Women: Female Physicians in the West ; Part 2: Public Health and Health Education on the Frontier
- Early Western Hospitals
- The Professional Nurse
- Sanitation and Public Health
- Epidemic Diseases in the West Epilogue: Medicine in the Third Millennium.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-350) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Steele, Volney. Bleed, blister, and purge.
- ISBN:
- 9780878425051
- 0878425055
- OCLC:
- 57557534
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