Frontier Medicine: From the ATlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 (Vintage International)

Frontier Medicine: From the ATlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 (Vintage International) image
ISBN-10:

0307455424

ISBN-13:

9780307455420

Author(s): Dary, David
Edition: Illustrated
Released: Oct 06, 2009
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
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Description:

In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry.

Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.


























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