Author: John Smedley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Practical hydropathy. Revised
Author: John Smedley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Practical hydropathy. Revised
Author: John Smedley
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ISBN: 9781019546512
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781019546512
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The American Practice of Medicine, Revised, Enlarged, and Improved ... Embracing the Most Useful Portions of the Former Work, with Corrections, Additions,&c. Three Hundred Engravings
Author: Wooster BEACH
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Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Languages : en
Pages : 706
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The People's Doctors
Author: John S. Haller
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought to release patients from the harsh bleeding or purging regimens of regular physicians by offering inexpensive and gentle medicines from their own fields and gardens. He melded his followers into a militant corps of dedicated believers, using them to successfully lobby state legislatures to pass medical acts favorable to their cause. John S. Haller Jr. points out that Thomson began his studies by ministering to his own family. He started his professional career as an itinerant healer traveling a circuit among the small towns and villages of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Eventually, he transformed his medical practice into a successful business enterprise with agents selling several hundred thousand rights or franchises to his system. His popular New Guide to Health (1822) went through thirteen editions, including one in German, and countless thousands were reprinted without permission. Told here for the first time, Haller's history of Thomsonism recounts the division within this American medical sect in the last century. While many Thomsonians displayed a powerful, vested interest in anti-intellectualism, a growing number found respectability through the establishment of medical colleges and a certified profession of botanical doctors. The People's Doctors covers seventy years, from 1790, when Thomson began his practice on his own family, until 1860, when much of Thomson's medical domain had been captured by the more liberal Eclectics. Eighteen halftones illustrate this volume.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought to release patients from the harsh bleeding or purging regimens of regular physicians by offering inexpensive and gentle medicines from their own fields and gardens. He melded his followers into a militant corps of dedicated believers, using them to successfully lobby state legislatures to pass medical acts favorable to their cause. John S. Haller Jr. points out that Thomson began his studies by ministering to his own family. He started his professional career as an itinerant healer traveling a circuit among the small towns and villages of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Eventually, he transformed his medical practice into a successful business enterprise with agents selling several hundred thousand rights or franchises to his system. His popular New Guide to Health (1822) went through thirteen editions, including one in German, and countless thousands were reprinted without permission. Told here for the first time, Haller's history of Thomsonism recounts the division within this American medical sect in the last century. While many Thomsonians displayed a powerful, vested interest in anti-intellectualism, a growing number found respectability through the establishment of medical colleges and a certified profession of botanical doctors. The People's Doctors covers seventy years, from 1790, when Thomson began his practice on his own family, until 1860, when much of Thomson's medical domain had been captured by the more liberal Eclectics. Eighteen halftones illustrate this volume.
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Literary World
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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An Outline of Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical ...
Author: Theodore Delavan Wilson
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Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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The Technology of Orgasm
Author: Rachel P. Maines
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421400553
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Winner of the Herbert Feis Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the AFGAGMAS Biennial Book AwardWinner of the Science Award from the American Foundation for Gender and Genital Medicine From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries relied on midwives. Later, they substituted the efficiency of mechanical devices, including the electric vibrator, invented in the 1880s. In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421400553
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Winner of the Herbert Feis Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the AFGAGMAS Biennial Book AwardWinner of the Science Award from the American Foundation for Gender and Genital Medicine From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries relied on midwives. Later, they substituted the efficiency of mechanical devices, including the electric vibrator, invented in the 1880s. In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device.
Poetic Wit, and Legends in Verse ...
Author: Alfred Whaley Cole
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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The mystery of Orleton manor
Author: Robert Jewell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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