Frontier Medicine

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Reference, History, Americas, North America, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Author: David Dary ISBN: 9780307270313
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: November 4, 2008
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: David Dary
ISBN: 9780307270313
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: November 4, 2008
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry.

Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.

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In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry.

Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.

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