Patient Expectations: How Economics, Religion, and Malpractice Shaped Therapeutics in Early America by Catherine Thompson

Patient Expectations: How Economics, Religion, and Malpractice Shaped Therapeutics in Early America

Catherine Thompson

192 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history medium-paced
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During the first half of the nineteenth century a major shift occurred in the medical treatment of illness in the United States, as physicians abandoned the use of "heroic" depletive therapies--the pukes and purges made famous in the 1790s by Dr. ...

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