Early health & medicine /
Bobbie Kalman.
- Toronto ; New York ; Crabtree Pub., 1991, c1983.
- 64 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
- The Early settler life series .
Includes 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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