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Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine
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Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine / Erika Janik.
ISBN
9780807022085 (hbk. : alk. paper)
080702208X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780807022092 (ebk.)
0807022098 (ebook)
9780807022092 (ebook)
Publication
Boston : Beacon Press, [2014]
Physical Description
337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"A history of botanical remedies, hypnotic suggestion, water cures, and other alternative medicine in nineteenth-century America"--Dust jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 02, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-317) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Medicine at the crossroads
Every man his own physician: Thomson's botanic medicine
The only true science of the mind: phrenology
Quenching thirst, healing pain: hydropathy
Dilutions of health: homeopathy
Hypnotized: Mesmer and his mental magic
Selling snake oil: patent medicine
Manual medicine: osteopathy and chiropractic
The fall and rise of alternative medicine.
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