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1 online resource (xiii, 379 pages) : illustrations |
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Benjamin Franklin's enlightened medicine -- I: The colonist and medicine -- Poor Richard's medicine -- In praise of exercise -- The smallpox wars -- The citizen and the hospital -- Electricity and the Palsies -- Electricity, mental disorders, and a modest proposal -- II: Medicine in Great Britain -- Friends and medical connections -- Scotland and the first American medical school -- Colds, the weather, and the invisible world -- Fresh air and good health -- The perils of lead -- III: Le docteur in France -- French medicine and health imperatives -- The folly of mesmerism -- From music therapy to the music of madness -- IV: Old age, illnesses, and the doctor's death -- Bifocals and the aging inventor -- Skin and "scurf" -- The gout as your friend? -- A debilitating stone -- The limits of medicine -- Franklin's medical legacy |
| Summary |
Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that Benjamin Franklin--scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman--played in the development of the healing arts, giving preventive and bedside medicine, hospital care, and even personal hygiene a modern look that changed the face of medical care in both America and Europe |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-364) and index |
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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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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 |
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 fast |
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Medicine -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Scientists -- United States -- Biography
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Scientists -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Celebrities.
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Medicine -- History.
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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Famous Persons
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History of Medicine
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History, 18th Century
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history of medicine.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Celebrities
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Medicine
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Scientists
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United States |
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United States
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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 |
9780812201918 |
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0812201914 |
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1283211637 |
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9781283211635 |
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9786613211637 |
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661321163X |
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