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Doctors of the American Frontier

Richard Dunlop

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Description:(From jacket of the first edition): When a frontier gunman's wrist was shattered by a bullet, he lost his arm to amputation. When cholera struck a wagon train, the survivors buried the dead along the trail. Nineteenth-century medicine was harsh and primitive, and when a doctor could not be reached, pioneers often died from the hunting-knife surgery of a friend or from a homemade cure.Here, in all its color, is the story of frontier medicine. Thoroughly researched, yet written with a light and lively hand, this chronicle spins a yarn about the rough-and-tumble era of the pioneer West—the days of sodbuster surgeons, cowboy doctors, railroad sawbones, riverboat remedies, old wives' cures, and get-rich-quick quacks.And here are the great men of wilderness medicine: Ephraim McDowell who ignored the shouts of a lynch mob in backwoods Kentucky while he performed the first ovariectomy in medical history; William Beaumont, a surgeon at a Great Lakes military outpost, who studied human digestion through a gunshot wound in the stomach of a young voyageur; Daniel Drake, who wrote a masterful medical geography, mapping diseases and their causes in the interior wilderness of North America; and George Goodfellow, the famous gunshot surgeon of Tombstone, Arizona, who patched up the lucky survivors and performed post mortems on the not-so-lucky dead.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doctors of the American Frontier. To get started finding Doctors of the American Frontier, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 228

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Doubleday

Release: 1965

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Description: (From jacket of the first edition): When a frontier gunman's wrist was shattered by a bullet, he lost his arm to amputation. When cholera struck a wagon train, the survivors buried the dead along the trail. Nineteenth-century medicine was harsh and primitive, and when a doctor could not be reached, pioneers often died from the hunting-knife surgery of a friend or from a homemade cure.Here, in all its color, is the story of frontier medicine. Thoroughly researched, yet written with a light and lively hand, this chronicle spins a yarn about the rough-and-tumble era of the pioneer West—the days of sodbuster surgeons, cowboy doctors, railroad sawbones, riverboat remedies, old wives' cures, and get-rich-quick quacks.And here are the great men of wilderness medicine: Ephraim McDowell who ignored the shouts of a lynch mob in backwoods Kentucky while he performed the first ovariectomy in medical history; William Beaumont, a surgeon at a Great Lakes military outpost, who studied human digestion through a gunshot wound in the stomach of a young voyageur; Daniel Drake, who wrote a masterful medical geography, mapping diseases and their causes in the interior wilderness of North America; and George Goodfellow, the famous gunshot surgeon of Tombstone, Arizona, who patched up the lucky survivors and performed post mortems on the not-so-lucky dead.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doctors of the American Frontier. To get started finding Doctors of the American Frontier, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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