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Autore: Finger Stanley Visualizza persona
Titolo: Doctor Franklin's medicine / / Stanley Finger Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
Disciplina: 610.92
Soggetto topico: Medicine - United States - History - 18th century
Scientists - United States
Scientists - United States - History - 18th century
Soggetto non controllato: American History
American Studies
General
History of Science
Natural History
Science
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The colonist and medicine -- pt. 2. Medicine in Great Britain -- pt. 3. Le docteur in France -- pt. 4. Old age, illnesses, and the doctor's death.
Sommario/riassunto: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAmong his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the causes of the common cold. His inventions-including bifocal lenses and a "long arm" that extended the user's reach-made life easier for the aged and afflicted. In Doctor Franklin's Medicine, Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that this scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman played in the development of the healing arts-enhancing preventive and bedside medicine, hospital care, and even personal hygiene in ways that changed the face of medical care in both America and Europe.As Finger shows, Franklin approached medicine in the spirit of the Enlightenment and with the mindset of an experimental natural philosopher, seeking cures for diseases and methods of alleviating symptoms of illnesses. He was one of the first people to try to use electrical shocks to help treat paralytic strokes and hysteria, and even suggested applying shocks to the head to treat depressive disorders. He also strove to topple one of the greatest fads in eighteenth-century medicine: mesmerism.Doctor Franklin's Medicine looks at these and the many other contributions that Franklin made to the progress of medical knowledge, including a look at how Franklin approached his own chronic illnesses of painful gout and a large bladder stone. Written in accessible prose and filled with new information on the breadth of Franklin's interests and activities, Doctor Franklin's Medicine reveals the impressive medical legacy of this Founding Father.
Titolo autorizzato: Doctor Franklin's medicine  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-21163-7
9786613211637
0-8122-0191-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828340703321
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