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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456509003321

Autore

Duffin Jacalyn

Titolo

Langstaff : a nineteenth-century medical life / / Jacalyn Duffin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-282-04554-7

9786612045547

1-4426-7638-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

610/.92

Soggetti

Medicine - Ontario - Richmond Hill - History - 19th century

Physicians - Ontario - Richmond Hill

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Making of a Doctor -- Chapter Two. The Professional and Social World of a Nineteenth-Century Doctor -- Chapter Three. Medical Knowledge in Diagnosis: Physical Signs at the Bedside -- Chapter Four. Medical Knowledge in Therapy: Old Stand-bys, Innovations, and Intangibles -- Chapter Five. Patients and Their Diseases: Morbidity and Mortality in Children and Adults -- Chapter Six. Lunatics, Dreamers, and Drunks -- Chapter Seven. Accidents, Injuries, and Operations: Langstaff's Practice of Surgery -- Chapter Eight. Birthing and Its Problems in Langstaff's Practice of Obstetrics -- Chapter Nine. Therapy through Social Action: Lawyers, Politics, and Public Health -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. A Note on Method -- Appendix B. Professional Associates of James Miles Langstaff -- Appendix C. Langstaff's Personal Library and Charities -- Appendix D. Langstaff's Properties -- Appendix E. Therapies in Langstaff's Daybooks -- Appendix F. Medical Diagnoses in Langstaff's Daybooks -- Notes -- List of Manuscript and Printed Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).