Devils, drugs, and doctors
Subtitle: the story of the science of healing from medicine men to doctor
By: Howard Wilcox Haggard
Publisher: Nabu Public Domain Reprints
Published: 2010
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9781178031508
Subjects: Medicine; History; History of Medicine; Médecine; Histoire; History of medicine
Notes: Facsimile of the original work published by William Heinemann, London.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Pt 1. The conquest of death at birth: Childbirth and civilization; title: Sairey Gamps and the midmen; title: "The compassion of Peter Chamberlen"; title: "A gentleman with clean hands may carry the disease "; title: Pt 2. The story of anesthesia: "In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children"; title: Pt 3. The progress of surgery: Making an anatomy; title: The greatest surgeon; title: Pt 4. The passing of the plague and pestilence: The Black Death; title: Pestilence and personal liberty; title: Pestilence and moralists; title: The medical thread in the moral snarl; title: Pt 5. The healing art: The halt, the lame, and the blind; title: White magic and black; title: A drug on the market; title: The turning-point; title: Toward a better civilization; title: Pt 6. Medicine through the ages: Civilization and medicine.