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Lessons from the history of medical delusions / by Worthington Hooker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homeopathy.
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- Quacks and quackery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (v, 105 pages)).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Baker & Scribner, 1850.
- Summary:
- Hooker was disturbed by the lack of respect shown to the regular medical profession by the American public and by the rise of alternative therapeutic systems. This is one of several books Hooker wrote with the intention of exposing the false premises upon which the public condemned allopathic medicine while embracing the supposed merits of its pseudo-scientific alternatives.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Fiske fund prize dissertation of the Rhode Island Medical Society
- Collection reference: 105659.D
- Hooker received his medical degree from Harvard in 1829 and practiced in Norwich, Connecticut for more than twenty years before his appointment as professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Yale in 1852. Concerned about the level of popular scientific education, Hooker wrote a series of books intended to explain the natural sciences to the lay and school-age audiences.
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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