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Title
Doctor Franklin's medicine
Published
Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006
Description
xiii, 379 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 25 cm
Call Number
923.273 F828fin 2006 MB
System Control No.
(OCoLC)62167710
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-364) and index
Contents: Benjamin Franklin's enlightened medicine -- I. The colonist and medicine -- Poor Richard's medicine -- In praise of exercise -- The smallpox wars -- The citizen and the hospital -- Electricity and the Palsies -- Electricity, mental disorders, and a modest proposal -- II. Medicine in Great Britain -- Friends and medical connections -- Scotland and the first American medical school -- Colds, the weather, and the invisible world -- Fresh air and good health -- The perils of lead -- III. Le docteur in France -- French medicine and health imperatives -- The folly of mesmerism -- From music therapy to the music of madness -- IV. Old age, illnesses, and the doctor's death -- Bifocals and the aging inventor -- Skin and "scurf" -- The gout as your friend? -- A debilitating stone -- The limits of medicine -- Franklin's medical legacy
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Contents: Benjamin Franklin's enlightened medicine -- I. The colonist and medicine -- Poor Richard's medicine -- In praise of exercise -- The smallpox wars -- The citizen and the hospital -- Electricity and the Palsies -- Electricity, mental disorders, and a modest proposal -- II. Medicine in Great Britain -- Friends and medical connections -- Scotland and the first American medical school -- Colds, the weather, and the invisible world -- Fresh air and good health -- The perils of lead -- III. Le docteur in France -- French medicine and health imperatives -- The folly of mesmerism -- From music therapy to the music of madness -- IV. Old age, illnesses, and the doctor's death -- Bifocals and the aging inventor -- Skin and "scurf" -- The gout as your friend? -- A debilitating stone -- The limits of medicine -- Franklin's medical legacy
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