num_pages: 383
description: A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).
language: English
title: Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life
publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division