| Description |
xxiii, 425 pages, [63] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; v. 57
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An overview of Massachusetts history to 1820 -- The historiography of early American medicine -- Eighteenth-century medicine and the modern physician -- The healing arts in colonial and revolutionary Massachusetts : the context for scientific medicine / Richard D. Brown -- The medical practitioners of Massachusetts, 1630-1800 : patterns of change and continuity / Eric H. Christianson -- The professionalization of Boston medicine, 1760-1803 / Philip Cash -- The influence of Europe on colonial Massachusetts medicine / C. Helen Brock -- The medical profession in colonial Boston / G.B. Warden -- Medicine in Boston and Philadelphia : comparisons and contrasts, 1750-1820 / Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. -- The Boston medical community and emerging science, 1780-1820 / John C. Greene -- Charity, medical charity, and dependency in eighteeenth-century Essex County, Massachusetts / Douglas Lamar Jones -- Surgery in Massachusetts, 1620-1800 / WIlliam C. Wigglesworth -- Church record-keeping and public health in early New England / James H. Cassedy -- Botanic remedies in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820 / George E. Gifford, Jr. -- Therapeutic practice in colonial New England / J. Worth Estes. |
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Medicine -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
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Medicine -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
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Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Congresses.
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History of Medicine -- Massachusetts -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
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