Bleed, blister, puke, and purge : the dirty secrets behind early American medicine / J. Marin Younker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Younker, J. Marin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--United States--History--Juvenile literature.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (114 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Zest Books, [2016]

Summary:

Riots over the medical use of cadavers. Public access to institutions for the insane. And full-blown surgeries without the aid of anesthetics or painkillers. Welcome to the middle ages of American medicine. Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge exposes the extraordinary practices and major players of American medical history, from the colonial era to the late 1800s. It's hard to believe that today's cutting-edge medicine originated from such crude beginnings, but this book reminds us to be grateful for today's medical care, while also raising the question: what current medical practices will be the horrors of tomorrow?.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Part I: Medicine in the New Old World

Chapter 1: A Dirty Business

Chapter 2: The Early Roots

Chapter 3: On Display

Chapter 4: Taking Care

Chapter 5: Insane in the Membrane

Part II: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Chapter 6: Wanted: Medical Professionalism

Chapter 7: Cut 'Em Up in the Name of Education

Chapter 8: Everyone Wants to Be a Hero

Chapter 9: What a Rush

Chapter 10: The Operation Game

Chapter 11: Alternatives to Heroic Medicine

Chapter 12: Women in Early American Medicine (or the Lack Thereof)

Part III: Anesthesia and Civil War Medicine

Chapter 13: Let's Skip the Knock Upside the Head

Chapter 14: Sawbones: Practicing on Civil War Soldiers

Chapter 15: Room for Improvement

Part IV: The Death of Heroic Medicine

Chapter 16: Listen to Lister

Chapter 17: Killing President Garfield

Conclusion: How Science and Medicine Finally Met

Bibliography

References

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5415-7952-6

1-942186-33-9