Pious Traders in Medicine
Subtitle: A German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780271020525
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; History Of Medicine; Pharmaceutical industries; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; Religion And Medicine; Medical; Medical / Nursing; History: World; North America; USA; History; General; 18th century; Germany; Medicine; Pietists; United States
Description: "This book tells the story of two generations of Pietist ministers sent from Halle, in Brandenburg Prussia, to the German communities of North America during the eighteenth century. In conjunction with their clerical office, these ministers provided medical services using pharmaceuticals and medical texts brought with them from Europe. Their practice is an example of how different medical markets and medical cultures evolved in North America."--BOOK JACKET.