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Doctor franklin's medicine /

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 bo...

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Main Authors: Finger, Stanley.
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2006]
©2006
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Famous Persons > Biography > United States.
History of Medicine > Biography > United States.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
History, 18th Century > Biography > United States.
Medicine > United States > History > 18th century.
Scientists > United States > Biography.
Scientists > United States > History > 18th century.
Culture and History of non-European Territories.
Global History.
History.
Medicine.
Medizin, Gesundheit.
Scientists.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812201918
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: 45 illus.
ISBN: 9780812201918
Index Number: R151
CLC: R-097.12
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
INTRODUCTION Benjamin Franklin s Enlightened Medicine --
1. Poor Richard s Medicine --
2. In Praise of Exercise --
3. The Smallpox Wars --
4. The Citizen and the Hospital --
5. Electricity and the Palsies --
6. Electricity, Mental Disorders, and a Modest Proposal --
7. Friends and Medical Connections --
8. Scotland and the First American Medical School --
9. Colds, the Weather, and the Invisible World --
10. Fresh Air and Good Health --
11. The Perils of Lead --
12. French Medicine and Health Imperatives --
13. The Folly of Mesmerism --
14. From Music Therapy to the Music of Madness --
15. Bifocals and the Aging Inventor --
16. Skin and "Scurf " --
17. The Gout as Your Friend? --
18. A Debilitating Stone --
19. The Limits of Medicine --
Epilogue: Franklin s Medical Legacy --
Notes --
Index.

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