Doctor Franklin's Medicine

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAmong his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the causes of the common cold. His inventions-including bifocal lenses and a "long arm" that extended the user's reach-made life easier for the aged and afflicted. In Doctor Franklin's Medicine, Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that this scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman played in the development of the healing arts-enhancing preventive and bedside medicine, hospital care, and even personal hygiene in ways that changed the face of medical care in both America and Europe.As Finger shows, Franklin approached medicine in the spirit of the Enlightenment and with the mindset of an experimental natural philosopher, seeking cures for diseases and methods of alleviating symptoms of illnesses. He was one of the first people to try to use electrical shocks to help treat paralytic strokes and hysteria, and even suggested applying shocks to the head to treat depressive disorders. He also strove to topple one of the greatest fads in eighteenth-century medicine: mesmerism.Doctor Franklin's Medicine looks at these and the many other contributions that Franklin made to the progress of medical knowledge, including a look at how Franklin approached his own chronic illnesses of painful gout and a large bladder stone. Written in accessible prose and filled with new information on the breadth of Franklin's interests and activities, Doctor Franklin's Medicine reveals the impressive medical legacy of this Founding Father.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-02-08
Mått155 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt798 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN9780812239133

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PrefaceIntroduction: Benjamin Franklin's Enlightened MedicinePART I. THE COLONIST AND MEDICINE1. Poor Richard's Medicine2. In Praise of Exercise3. The Smallpox Wars4. The Citizen and the Hospital5. Electricity and the Palsies6. Electricity, Mental Disorders, and a Modest ProposalPART II. MEDICINE IN GREAT BRITAIN7. Friends and Medical Connections8. Scotland and the First American Medical School9. Colds, the Weather, and the Invisible World10. Fresh Air and Good Health11. The Perils of LeadPART III. LE DOCTEUR IN FRANCE12. French Medicine and Health Imperatives13. The Folly of Mesmerism14. From Music Therapy to the Music of MadnessPART IV. OLD AGE, ILLNESSES, AND THE DOCTOR'S DEATH15. Bifocals and the Aging Inventor16. Skin and "Scurf "17. The Gout as Your Friend?18. A Debilitating Stone19. The Limits of MedicineEpilogue: Franklin's Medical LegacyNotesIndex

"Finger's accessible study of a truly inventive and international scientist, statesman and publicist includes some of its own novelties and should attract bothspecialist and nonspecialist readerships." (Social History of Medicine) "Eminent neuroscientist and medial historian Stanley Finger admirably lays out Franklin's association with the medical advances of his time. . . . As Finger conducts this fascinating tour of medical history, he enlivens the narrative with information that is often useful and always interesting. . . . A valuable and entertaining work." (American Scientist)

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