Calomel!
Subtitle: a drug in America
By: Richard M. Swiderski.
Publisher: BrownWalker Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781599424675
Subjects: Calomel -- History -- 18th century; Calomel -- History -- 19th century; Mercury -- Therapeutic use -- United States; Mercury Compounds -- history -- United States; Mercury Compounds -- therapeutic use -- United States; History, 18th Century -- United States; History, 19th Century -- United States; Mercury Compounds -- adverse effects -- United States; Physician's Practice Patterns -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Making calomel; title: Panacea; title: Epidemics; title: "Go fetch the doctor"; title: The calomel doctors; title: Pill-makers; title: Calomel and Dr. Cooke; title: Military calomel; title: Prophylaxis; title: The calomel-morphine problem; title: Calomel of the spirits.