Name/Title
The Doctor in Colonial TimesEntry/Object ID
2019.010.005Description
"Here you'll find a world wehre surgeons working at military hospitals, received one and one-third dollars a day for their efforts. Where operations, most frequently ampoutations, were performed without benefit of anesthesia; and where nostalgia was deemed a legitimate diagnosis and was treated as an organic disease during the Revolutionary War. Learn how a puritanically minded people were resistant to smallpox inoculations as being against the will of God; about physicians forced to experiment with new vaccines on their own family members for want of other subjects; and even about how best to treat an outbreak of scurvy aboard a slave ship."Collection
Breed CollectionBook Details
Author
Friedenberg, Dr. Zachary B.Date Published
1998