Author: Henry Hall SherwoodPublisher:
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Category : Magnetic healing
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Motive Power of Organic Life, and Magnetic Phenomena of Terrestrial and Planetary Motions
Author: Henry Hall SherwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magnetic healing
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Lectures on Natural and Difficult Parturition
Author: Edward William MurphyPublisher:
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Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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A Traffic of Dead Bodies
Author: Michael SappolPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691186146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. The nineteenth century saw the rise of the American medical profession: a proliferation of practitioners, journals, organizations, sects, and schools. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, allowing American medicine to invest itself with the authority of European science. Anatomists crossed the boundary between life and death, cut into the body, reduced it to its parts, framed it with moral commentary, and represented it theatrically, visually, and textually. Only initiates of the dissecting room could claim the privileged healing status that came with direct knowledge of the body. But anatomy depended on confiscation of the dead--mainly the plundered bodies of African Americans, immigrants, Native Americans, and the poor. As black markets in cadavers flourished, so did a cultural obsession with anatomy, an obsession that gave rise to clashes over the legal, social, and moral status of the dead. Ministers praised or denounced anatomy from the pulpit; rioters sacked medical schools; and legislatures passed or repealed laws permitting medical schools to take the bodies of the destitute. Dissection narratives and representations of the anatomical body circulated in new places: schools, dime museums, popular lectures, minstrel shows, and sensationalist novels. Michael Sappol resurrects this world of graverobbers and anatomical healers, discerning new ligatures among race and gender relations, funerary practices, the formation of the middle-class, and medical professionalization. In the process, he offers an engrossing and surprisingly rich cultural history of nineteenth-century America.
Lectures on Materia Medica and Therapeutics
Author: John Brodhead BeckPublisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Motive Power of Organic Life, and Magnetic Phenomena of Terrestrial and Planetary Motions
Author: H. H. SherwoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332160051
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Excerpt from The Motive Power of Organic Life, and Magnetic Phenomena of Terrestrial and Planetary Motions: With the Application of the Ever-Active and All-Pervading Agency of Magnetism, to the Nature, Symptoms, and Treatment of Chronic Diseases In demonstrating the Motive Power of Organic Life in the following work, I have endeavoured to present the subject to the reader in a plain, concise, and simple manner, divested entirely of the abstruse metaphysics in which it has been heretofore involved. The Motive Power is in the Nervous System, and hence the necessity of describing this system to show the connection of that power with it. To effect the first object, I have availed myself of a general and concise description of the Nervous System, communicated to the British Association for the advancement of Science, by William Charles Henry, and also of a more particular description of it by Mr. Geo. Combe; to which I have added extracts from Spurzheim and Bichat, and a lecture of M. Broussais on the Cerebellum - all of which I have illustrated with numerous engravings; presenting, in the whole, the most popular and interesting views of the Nervous System, and of its Physiology, as taught in the rival schools of London and Paris. In presenting the views of Terrestrial and Planetary Motions, derived from Magnetic Phenomena, with their attendant influences upon the Motive Power of Organic Life, I have adhered to my plan of giving to the reader in connection every subject in a plain and concise way, without halting in my course to notice every idle theory that has been invented to explain them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Poe, Fuller, and the Mesmeric Arts
Author: Bruce MillsPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826265006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"Examines how the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Margaret Fuller draw from representations of and theories concerning animal magnetism, somnambulism, or hypnosis rendered in newspapers, literary and medical journals, pamphlets, and books, and also includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Maria Child, and Walt Whitman"--Provided by publisher.
Medical Protestants
Author: John S. HallerPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809381060
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
John S. Haller,Jr., provides the first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine. The Eclectic school (sometimes called the "American School") flourished in the mid-nineteenth century when the art and science of medicine was undergoing a profound crisis of faith. At the heart of the crisis was a disillusionment with the traditional therapeutics of the day and an intense questioning of the principles and philosophy upon which medicine had been built. Many American physicians and their patients felt that medicine had lost the ability to cure. The Eclectics surmounted the crisis by forging a therapeutics based on herbal remedies and an empirical approach to disease, a system independent of the influence of European practices. Although rejected by the Regulars (adherents of mainstream medicine), the Eclectics imitated their magisterial manner, establishing two dozen colleges and more than sixty-five journals to proclaim the wisdom of their theory. Central to the story of Eclecticism is that of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, the "mother institute" of reform medical colleges. Organized in 1845, the school was to exist for ninety-four years before closing in 1939. Throughout much of their history, the Eclectic medical schools provided an avenue into the medical profession for men and women who lacked the financial and educational opportunities the Regular schools required, siding with Professor Martyn Paine of the Medical Department of New York University, who, in 1846, had accused the newly formed American Medical Association of playing aristocratic politics behind a masquerade of curriculum reform. Eventually, though, they grudgingly followed the lead of the Regulars by changing their curriculum and tightening admission standards. By the late nineteenth century, the Eclectics found themselves in the backwaters of modern medicine. Unable to break away from their botanic bias and ill-equipped to support the implications of germ theory, the financial costs of salaried faculty and staff, and the research implications of laboratory science, the Eclectics were pushed aside by the rush of modern academic medicine.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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