Author: William Ryerson Vis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Saddlebag Doctor
Author: William Ryerson Vis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Upper Cumberland Country
Author: William Lynwood Montell
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035319
Category : Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035319
Category : Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Send Us a Lady Physician
Author: Ruth J. Abram
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393302783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The irony of women's acceptance into the medical world, and the unfortunate decline in their status at the beginning of the twentieth-century, is illustrated in this volume through words and pictures. By focusing on the class of 1879 at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the authors of the various essays depict individual trials, frustrations, and victories of nineteenth-century women physicians; and we come to understand a vital aspect of our history and how it affects us all today.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393302783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The irony of women's acceptance into the medical world, and the unfortunate decline in their status at the beginning of the twentieth-century, is illustrated in this volume through words and pictures. By focusing on the class of 1879 at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the authors of the various essays depict individual trials, frustrations, and victories of nineteenth-century women physicians; and we come to understand a vital aspect of our history and how it affects us all today.
American Indian Medicine
Author: Virgil J. Vogel
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806170239
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. Itdiscusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. The influence of American Indian healing arts on the medicine and healing and pharmacology of the white man was considerable. For example, such drugs as insulin and penicillin were anticipated in rudimentary form by the aborigines. Coca leaves were used as narcotics by Peruvian Indians hundreds of years before Carl Koller first used cocaine as a local anesthetic in 1884. All together, about 170 medicines, mostly botanical, were contributed to the official compendia by Indians north of the Rio Grande, about 50 more coming from natives of the Latin-American and Caribbean regions. Impressions and attitudes of early explorers, settlers, physicians, botanists, and others regarding Indian curative practices are reported by geographical regions, with British, French, and Spanish colonies and the young United States separately treated. Indian theories of disease—sorcery, taboo violation, spirit intrusion, soul loss, unfulfilled dreams and desires, and so on -and shamanistic practices used to combat them are described. Methods of treating all kinds of injuries-from fractures to snakebite-and even surgery are included. The influence of Indian healing lore upon folk or domestic medicine, as well as on the "Indian doctors" and patent medicines, are discussed. For the convenience of the reader, an index of botanical names is provided, together with a wide variety of illustrations. The disproportionate attention that has been given to the superstitious and unscientific features of aboriginal medicine has tended to obscure its real contributions to American civilization.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806170239
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. Itdiscusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. The influence of American Indian healing arts on the medicine and healing and pharmacology of the white man was considerable. For example, such drugs as insulin and penicillin were anticipated in rudimentary form by the aborigines. Coca leaves were used as narcotics by Peruvian Indians hundreds of years before Carl Koller first used cocaine as a local anesthetic in 1884. All together, about 170 medicines, mostly botanical, were contributed to the official compendia by Indians north of the Rio Grande, about 50 more coming from natives of the Latin-American and Caribbean regions. Impressions and attitudes of early explorers, settlers, physicians, botanists, and others regarding Indian curative practices are reported by geographical regions, with British, French, and Spanish colonies and the young United States separately treated. Indian theories of disease—sorcery, taboo violation, spirit intrusion, soul loss, unfulfilled dreams and desires, and so on -and shamanistic practices used to combat them are described. Methods of treating all kinds of injuries-from fractures to snakebite-and even surgery are included. The influence of Indian healing lore upon folk or domestic medicine, as well as on the "Indian doctors" and patent medicines, are discussed. For the convenience of the reader, an index of botanical names is provided, together with a wide variety of illustrations. The disproportionate attention that has been given to the superstitious and unscientific features of aboriginal medicine has tended to obscure its real contributions to American civilization.
Henry's Attic
Author: Ford R. Bryan
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The purchases he made and the gifts he was given reflect his desire to document and preserve the lifeways of common people and to emphasize middle-class rural history, as represented by the tools of agriculture, industry, and transportation.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The purchases he made and the gifts he was given reflect his desire to document and preserve the lifeways of common people and to emphasize middle-class rural history, as represented by the tools of agriculture, industry, and transportation.
The Doctor's Factotum
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Criswell
Author: O. S. Hawkins
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430086084
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
When the name W. A. Criswell is read or heard, certain thoughts come to mind. Many likely remember him as a president of the Southern Baptist Convention, or the founder of the Criswell College in Dallas, Texas, or the senior pastor for five decades of one of the largest Baptist churches in America, or even one of the key figures during the Conservative Resurgence. All of these are acknowledgments of the importance of the life of Criswell, but these do not necessarily capture who he was as a man, as a husband, as a father, as a friend and mentor. O.S. Hawkins was closely mentored by Criswell and was his pastoral successor. In Criswell: His Life and Times, Hawkins takes on the task of capturing the life of one of the most important figures in modern Baptist history. He discusses his humble upbringing, the dedication of his parents to ensure he received a proper education, his early years as a pastor, and how his love for the church influenced those around him over the course of his life. It is a biography that is both admiring and honest, and written with the knowledge of someone who could only know Criswell as a friend and a mentor.
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430086084
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
When the name W. A. Criswell is read or heard, certain thoughts come to mind. Many likely remember him as a president of the Southern Baptist Convention, or the founder of the Criswell College in Dallas, Texas, or the senior pastor for five decades of one of the largest Baptist churches in America, or even one of the key figures during the Conservative Resurgence. All of these are acknowledgments of the importance of the life of Criswell, but these do not necessarily capture who he was as a man, as a husband, as a father, as a friend and mentor. O.S. Hawkins was closely mentored by Criswell and was his pastoral successor. In Criswell: His Life and Times, Hawkins takes on the task of capturing the life of one of the most important figures in modern Baptist history. He discusses his humble upbringing, the dedication of his parents to ensure he received a proper education, his early years as a pastor, and how his love for the church influenced those around him over the course of his life. It is a biography that is both admiring and honest, and written with the knowledge of someone who could only know Criswell as a friend and a mentor.
The Trailsman #368
Author: Jon Sharpe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101588640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
There’s a bullet with Skye Fargo’s name on it… Skye Fargo’s deep in dangerous Mountain Ute country, scouting and guarding for a team of ice miners looking to make a killing in the boiling summer months. But there’s something deadlier than heatstroke waiting for Fargo. His name is Gus Latimer. He’s got hands of lightning, nerves of steel, and one thing on his mind… Kill the Trailsman…
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101588640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
There’s a bullet with Skye Fargo’s name on it… Skye Fargo’s deep in dangerous Mountain Ute country, scouting and guarding for a team of ice miners looking to make a killing in the boiling summer months. But there’s something deadlier than heatstroke waiting for Fargo. His name is Gus Latimer. He’s got hands of lightning, nerves of steel, and one thing on his mind… Kill the Trailsman…
Sketches & Incidents, Or, A Budget from the Saddle-bags of a Superannuated Itinerant
Author: Abel Stevens
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Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
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Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Sketches and Incidents, Or, A Budget from the Saddle-bags of a Superannuated Itinerant
Author: George Peck
Publisher:
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Category : Circuit riders
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circuit riders
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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