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Doctor Franklin's medicine
- Title
- Doctor Franklin's medicine / Stanley Finger.
- Author
- Finger, Stanley.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 06-14691 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 379 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (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.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-14691
- ISBN
- 081223913X (alk. paper)
- 9780812239133 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005045659
- 9780812239133
- OCLC
- 62167710
- Author
- Finger, Stanley.
- Title
- Doctor Franklin's medicine / Stanley Finger.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-364) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780812239133
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-14691