Cholera, its causes, prevention, and cure : showing the inefficacy of drug-treatment, and the superiority of the water-cure, in this disease

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shew, Joel, 1816-1855, author.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

Fowlers and Wells' water-cure library ; v. 4

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cholera--Alternative treatment.

Cholera.

Hydrotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 pages).

Place of Publication:

1855

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

"Stereotyped."

Publisher's advertisements (4 p.) bound in at end.

Bound in a contemporary publisher's binding; series statement from collective title page.

With: Shew, Joel. The water-cure manual. New York : Fowlers & Wells, 1855. Issued together.

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

956543212