Early health & medicine / Bobbie Kalman.
By: Kalman, Bobbie.
Material type: BookSeries: The Early settler life series. Publisher: Toronto ; New York ; Crabtree Pub., 1991, c1983Description: 64 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 0865050317 :; 0865050309 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Therapeutics -- United States -- History -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature | Medical care -- United States -- History -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature | Health -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature | Medical care -- History | Health -- History | Therapeutics -- History -- Miscellanea | Medical care -- History -- Miscellanea | Health -- HistoryDDC classification: 610/.973/0903Includes index and glossary.
Health was a challenge -- Learning the Indian remedies -- Food or poison? -- Disabling diseases -- Epidemics -- Tuberculosis -- The early doctors -- Inside the apothecary -- Patent medicines -- Jenner conquers smallpox -- Pasteur leads the way -- Raising medical standards -- Miracles of modern medicine.
Discusses the health and medical care that early settlers received, oftentimes to their doom.
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