Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages) |
Series |
History of American science and technology series |
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History of American science and technology series.
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Contents |
Preface; 1. Amerika, du hast es besser -- 2. To Become a Doctor; 3. Confederate Surgeon; 4. Gettysburg to Appomattox; 5. The New York Interlude; 6. No balm in Gilead -- 7. Let us be up and doing -- 8. The Therapeutic Optimist; 9. Reunion and Reform; 10. Smallpox and the New South; 11. No field for enterprise -- 12. Baruch Makes His Mark; 13. The Apostle of Cleanliness; 14. Ikey, Ikey, save the soap -- 15. The Gospel of Hydrotherapy; 16. The Wizard of Spas; 17. Dr. Baruch of the Sun; 18. Before I go hence -- Notes; Notes on Sources; Index |
Summary |
This biography recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation's best-known physicians by the turn of the century. Ward reconstructs the life of a medical student in the South at the opening of the Civil War, the adventures of a Confederate surgeon, and the difficulties of a practitioner in Reconstruction South Carolina. Simon Baruch's physician's registers and his correspondence with colleagues afford the reader an immediate sense of the therapeutic dilemmas facing physicians and patients of his |
Analysis |
Medicine |
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United States |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-379) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921.
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SUBJECT |
Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921 |
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Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921 fast |
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Physicians -- United States -- Biography
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Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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Balneology -- United States -- History
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Physicians.
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Physicians
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History, 19th Century
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Hydrotherapy -- history
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physicians.
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MEDICAL -- Physicians.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
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Balneology
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Medicine
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Physicians
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Baden (hygiëne)
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South Carolina |
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United States |
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Virginia |
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Southern States
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United States
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Verenigde Staten.
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
0585164711 |
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9780585164717 |
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