Title: Before modern medicine
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: History, Curiosa and miscellany, Medicine, Traditional medicine, Drug Therapy, Archives, History of Medicine, Death, Proof and certification, Genealogy, Diseases and history
Places: Canada
LC classification: R145 .B754 1998