Medical culture in revolutionary America
Subtitle: feuds, duels, and a court-martial
By: Linda Myrsiades.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780838641903
Subjects: Medicine -- United States -- History -- 18th century; History of Medicine -- United States; American Revolution -- United States; Dissection -- history -- United States; History, 18th Century -- United States; Military Medicine -- history -- United States; Quackery -- history -- United States
Description: Focusing on doctors' feuds and duels, yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia, and a court-martial of the medical director of army hospitals in the Revolutionary War, this title is set during a time when American medicine was caught in a period of catastrophic change. -- ‡c From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theory; title: Medical history; title: Quacks and corpses; title: Medical feuds in Philadelphia; title: Medical feuds in the revolutionary army.