Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons (Classic Reprint)
Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons (Classic Reprint)

Author: Egbert Cleave

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-13

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780243006540

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Excerpt from Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons His parents were very poor, and his father, objecting to the extravagant quantity of oil consumed by his son's nocturnal studies, deprived him of the family lamp, except at stated. Hours. The youth, however, by exercising his ingenuity, contrived to make a lamp out of clay and then persuaded his indulgent mother to supply him with oil out of her stores. This determination to overcome difficulties remained as a characteristic trait during his sub sequent career. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Vital Force
A Vital Force

Author: Anne Taylor Kirschmann

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780813533209

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Homeopathy, as a medical system, presented a significant institutional and economic challenge to conventional medicine in the nineteenth century. Although contemporary critics portrayed homeopathic physicians as part of a sect whose treatment of disease was beyond the pale of acceptable medical practice, homeopathy was in many ways similar to established medicine. In this book, the author offers a new interpretation of women{19}s roles in both mainstream and alternative modern medicine. She strengthens and clarifies the history of homeopathic women physicians, and creates a framework of comparison to "regular," or orthodox, physicians. Linked to social reform movements in the nineteenth century, antimodernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and countercultural ideals of the 1960s and 1970s, women's advocacy of homeopathy has been intertwined with broad social and cultural issues in American society.

An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform
An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform

Author: Christopher Hoolihan

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 9781580462846

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This is a catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of rare books dealing with 'popular medicine' in early America which is housed at the University of Rochester Medical School library. The books described in the catalogue were written by physicians and other professionals to provide information for the non-medical audience. The books taught human anatomy, hygiene, temperance and diet, how to maintain health, and how to cope with illness especially when no professional help was available. The books promoted a healthy lifestyle for the readers, giving guidance on everything from physical fitness and recreation to the special health needs of women. The collection consists of works dealing with reproduction (from birth control to delivering and caring for a baby), venereal disease, home-nursing, epidemics, and the need for public sex education.