The health seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900 / by John E. Baur ; introduction to the second edition by Robert G. Frank Jr.

  • Baur, John E.
Date:
[2010]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

San Marino, Calif. : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, [2010]

Physical description

xliii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.

Notes

Originally published: San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, c1959.

Contents

Building a health legend -- Advertising the resorts -- Los Angeles, capital of the "Sanitarium Belt" -- Town building -- Medicine and pseudo-medicine -- Faith and charity -- Mineral waters -- Prescription : agriculture -- Those who came -- The role of government -- Climax and anticlimax.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    EV.695.AA8
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780873282253
  • 0873282256