Frontier medicine : from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 / David Dary.
- Dary, David.
- Date:
- 2008
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Physical description
viii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-361) and index.
Contents
Indian medicine -- Early American medicine -- Over the Appalachians -- Beyond the Mississippi -- Fur traders and trappers -- On the Oregon trail -- Among the soldiers -- On homestead and ranch -- In western towns -- Going west for your health -- Midwives and women doctors -- Patent medicines -- Quacks -- Into the twentieth century.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineBW.6Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780307263452
- 0307263452