From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health (Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: March 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780275994679
Subjects: American history; History of medicine; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical / Nursing; History: American; USA; History; United States - 19th Century; History / United States / 19th Century; Biography; Kansas; Physicians; Public Health; Public health personnel; United States
Description: "From Snake Oil to Medicine tells an almost unbelievable story about America's past. It is a story about a trusting public, about the "snake oil" salesmen who took advantage of their innocence, and about pioneering scientists like Samuel J. Crumbine, M.D., who tried to end practices that, at best, wasted money and, at worst, threatened public health. In one short period documented in From Snake Oil to Medicine, Crumbine confronted just a few practices common in the late-19th and early-20th centuries."--Jacket.