Before modern medicine
Subtitle: diseases & yesterday's remedies
By: Elizabeth Briggs & Colin J. Briggs.
Contributors: Briggs, Colin J.
Publisher: Westgarth
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Winnipeg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Description: Provides the family historian with background informaton on how to use archival records to determine health information and cause of death. Important events in the scientific and medical evolution of therapy are reviewed, in the context of their effects on treatment available to our ancestors. The significance of local epidemic and pandemic diseases is discussed, as well as alternative systems of medicine, available pharmaceutical products, and alternative names for conditions, diseases, and causes of death.