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Title Bleed, blister, puke, and purge : the dirty secrets behind early American medicine / J. Marin Younker.
Author Younker, J. Marin.
Publication Info. San Francisco, CA : Zest Books, [2016]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  610.9 YOU    Check Shelves
Description 110 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Medicine in the new old world -- Two steps forward, one step back -- Anesthesia and Civil War medicine -- Death of heroic medicine.
Summary Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge exposes the extraordinary practices and major players of American medical history, from the colonial era to the late 1800s.
Subject Medicine -- United States -- History.
ISBN 9781942186328 (hardcover) : $13.99
1942186320 (hardcover)
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