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Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine Cover Image Book Book

Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine

Janik, Erika. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0807022098 (ebook)
  • ISBN: 9780807022092 (ebook)
  • ISBN: 080702208X (cloth)
  • ISBN: 9780807022085 (cloth)
  • Physical Description: print
    337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, 2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-317) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Summary, etc.: "A history of botanical remedies, hypnotic suggestion, water cures, and other alternative medicine in nineteenth-century America"--Dust jacket.

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Genre: History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at East Longmeadow Public Library.

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