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The mentally ill in America-A History of their care and treatment from colonial times (1937). Duffy, John. From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine (2nd ed. 1993) Duffy, John. The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health (1990) Grob, Gerald M. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America (2002) online
The Popular Health Movement of the 1830s–1850s was an aspect of Jacksonian-era politics and society in the United States.The movement promoted a rational skepticism toward claims of medical expertise that were based on personal authority, and encouraged ordinary people to understand the pragmatics of health care. [1]
Swedish Medical Center: Englewood, Colorado: 1905 Portland Open-Air Sanatorium Milwaukie Heights, Oregon [14] 1905 Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital: Salem, Oregon [15] 1907 Boston Consumptives Hospital: Boston, Massachusetts: 1907 Missouri State Sanatorium Mount Vernon, Missouri [16] 1907 Maryland Tuberculosis Sanitorium: Sabillasville ...
A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras. The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ h oʊ m z /; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
Grant, Susan-Mary. "On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War." American Nineteenth Century History (2012) 13#2 pp: 276–278. Hilde, Libra Rose. "Worth a Dozen Men: Women, Nursing, and Medical Care during the American Civil War" (PhD dissertation, Harvard U., 2003; UMI Microform 3091579)
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Combat medics attend to Irish casualties following the opening attack of the Battle of Passchendaele, 1917. Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded combatants and non-combatants in or near an area of combat.