S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914
S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914

Author: Nancy Cervetti

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-08-21

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0271060042

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This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women’s rights, S. Weir Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers with phantom limbs and burning pain, and creation of the rest cure to treat hysteria and neurasthenia. Mitchell’s life was extraordinary—interesting in its own right and as a case study in the larger inquiry into nineteenth-century medicine and culture.

Poems
Poems

Author: William Wetmore Story

Publisher:

Published: 1888

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13:

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper

Author: Catherine J. Golden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1134503547

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This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures.