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Author Ward, Patricia Spain

Title Simon Baruch : rebel in the ranks of medicine, 1840-1921 / Patricia Spain Ward
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages)
Series History of American science and technology series
History of American science and technology series.
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
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-379) and index
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Subject Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921.
SUBJECT Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921
Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921 fast
Subject Physicians -- United States -- Biography
Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Balneology -- United States -- History
Physicians.
Physicians
History, 19th Century
Hydrotherapy -- history
physicians.
MEDICAL -- Physicians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
Balneology
Medicine
Physicians
Baden (hygiëne)
SUBJECT South Carolina
United States
Virginia
Subject Southern States
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585164711
9780585164717