Doctor Franklin's Medicine

Name: Doctor Franklin's Medicine
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ISBN: 9780812239133

ISBN-10: 081223913X

ISBN-13: 9780812239133

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stanley Finger

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Benjamin Franklin founded the first hospital and medical school in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the causes of the common cold. His inventions--including bifocal lenses and a "long arm" that extended the user's reach--made life easier for the aged and afflicted. In Doctor Franklin's Medicine, Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that this scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman played in the development of the healing arts--enhancing preventive and bedside medicine, hospital care, and even personal hygiene in ways that changed the face of medical care in both America and Europe. As Finger shows, Franklin approached…

Book details

List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 2/8/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Benjamin Franklin's Enlightened Medicine



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



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



Le Docteur in France



French Medicine and Health Imperatives



The Folly of Mesmerism



From Music Therapy to the Music of Madness



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


Epilogue: Franklin's Medical Legacy


Notes


Index