Kindly medicine
Subtitle: physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911
By: John S. Haller, Jr.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Medicine, Physiomedical -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; History of Medicine, 19th Cent. -- United States.; Philosophy, Medical -- history -- United States.
Description: Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physiomedical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines for allopathy's mineral drugs and promoted the belief that the human body has an inherent "vital force" that can be used to heal. In Kindly Medicine, John Haller offers the first complete history of this high-brow branch of botanical medicine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.