Medicine in Colonial America

by Oscar Reiss

In Medicine in Colonial America, Oscar Reiss recognizes the theories and practices exercised by colonial physicians, and illustrates the gradual evolution of Dark Age medical ignorance to the beginnings of modern-day enlightenment. Reiss identifies the various levels of training for physicians from extensive schooling at respected universities to the informal instruction of mountebanks and quacks. He illustrates the numerous, unorthodox methods...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761815767
• ISBN13: 9780761815761
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"