Doctor Franklin's Medicine.
Title:
Doctor Franklin's Medicine.
Author:
Finger, Stanley.
ISBN:
9780812201918
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Benjamin Franklin's Enlightened Medicine -- Part I: The Colonist and Medicine -- Chapter 1. Poor Richard's Medicine -- Chapter 2. In Praise of Exercise -- Chapter 3. The Smallpox Wars -- Chapter 4. The Citizen and the Hospital -- Chapter 5. Electricity and the Palsies -- Chapter 6. Electricity, Mental Disorders, and a Modest Proposal -- Part II: Medicine In Great Britain -- Chapter 7. Friends and Medical Connections -- Chapter 8. Scotland and the First American Medical School -- Chapter 9. Colds, the Weather, and the Invisible World -- Chapter 10. Fresh Air and Good Health -- Chapter 11. The Perils of Lead -- Part III: Le Docteur In France -- Chapter 12. French Medicine and Health Imperatives -- Chapter 13. The Folly of Mesmerism -- Chapter 14. From Music Therapy to the Music of Madness -- Part IV: Old Age, Illnesses, and the Doctor's Death -- Chapter 15. Bifocals and the Aging Inventor -- Chapter 16. Skin and "Scurf " -- Chapter 17. The Gout as Your Friend? -- Chapter 18. A Debilitating Stone -- Chapter 19. The Limits of Medicine -- Epilogue: Franklin's Medical Legacy -- Notes.
Abstract:
Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that Benjamin Franklin-scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman-played in the development of the healing arts, giving preventive and bedside medicine, hospital care, and even personal hygiene a modern look that changed the face of medical care in both America and Europe.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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