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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aBreslaw, Elaine G. _eautore
245	1	0	_aLotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic : _bHealth Care in Early America / _cElaine G. Breslaw.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bNew York University Press, _c[2012]
264		4	_c©2012
300			_a1 online resource
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tList of Illustrations -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _t1. Columbian Exchange -- _t2. Epidemics -- _t3. Tools of the Trade -- _t4. Abundance -- _t5. Wartime -- _t6. New Nation -- _t7. Giving Birth -- _t8. The Face of Madness -- _t9. Democratic Medicine -- _t10. Public Health -- _tConclusion -- _tEpilogue -- _tAbbreviations -- _tBibliographic Essay -- _tIndex -- _tAbout the Author
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aHealth in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offered-from purging to mere palliatives-carried a powerful authority. Consequently, most American doctors felt little need to keep up with Europe’s medical advances relying heavily on their traditional depletion methods. However, in the years following the American Revolution as poverty increased and America’s water and air became more polluted, people grew sicker. Traditional medicine became increasingly ineffective. Instead, Americans sought out both older and newer forms of alternative medicine and people who embraced these methods: midwives, folk healers, Native American shamans, African obeahs and the new botanical and water cure advocates.In this overview of health and healing in early America, Elaine G. Breslaw describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. Breslaw examines “ethnic borrowings” (of both disease and treatment) of early American medicine and the tension between trained doctors and the lay public. While orthodox medicine never fully lost its authority, Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic argues that their ascendance over other healers didn’t begin until the early twentieth century, as germ theory finally migrated from Europe to the United States and American medical education achieved professional standing.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)
650		0	_aMedical care _xHistory _x18th century _xUnited States.
650		0	_aMedical care _xHistory _x19th century _xUnited States.
650		0	_aMedical care _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aMedical care _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aMedicine _xHistory _x18th century _xUnited States.
650		0	_aMedicine _xHistory _x19th century _xUnited States.
650		0	_aMedicine _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aMedicine _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aPhysicians _xHistory _x18th century _xUnited States.
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650		0	_aPhysicians _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aPhysicians _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aPublic health _xHistory _x18th century _xUnited States.
650		0	_aPublic health _xHistory _x19th century _xUnited States.
650		0	_aPublic health _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aPublic health _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
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