Bleed, blister, puke, and purce
Subtitle: the dirty secrets behind early American medicine
By: J. Marin Younker
Publisher: Zest Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781942186328
Subjects: Medicine; History
Description: Riots over the medical use of cadavers. Public access to institutions for the insane. And full-blown surgeries without the aid of anesthetics or painkillers. Welcome to the middle ages of American medicine. Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge exposes the extraordinary practices and major players of American medical history, from the colonial era to the late 1800s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Medicine in the new old world; title: Two steps forward, one step back; title: Anesthesia and Civil War medicine; title: The death of heroic medicine.