Bibliograph

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820, a conference held 25 & 26 May 1978, by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

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Label

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820, a conference held 25 & 26 May 1978, by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

7653657

Responsibility statement

by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Series statement

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. 57

Sub title

a conference held 25 & 26 May 1978

Table Of Contents

An overview of Massachusetts history to 1820 -- The historiography of early American medicine -- Eighteenth-century medicine and the modern physician -- The healing arts in colonial and revolutionary Massachusetts : the context for scientific medicine / Richard D. Brown -- The medical practitioners of Massachusetts, 1630-1800 : patterns of change and continuity / Eric H. Christianson -- The professionalization of Boston medicine, 1760-1803 / Philip Cash -- The influence of Europe on colonial Massachusetts medicine / C. Helen Brock -- The medical profession in colonial Boston / G.B. Warden -- Medicine in Boston and Philadelphia : comparisons and contrasts, 1750-1820 / Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. -- The Boston medical community and emerging science, 1780-1820 / John C. Greene -- Charity, medical charity, and dependency in eighteeenth-century Essex County, Massachusetts / Douglas Lamar Jones -- Surgery in Massachusetts, 1620-1800 / WIlliam C. Wigglesworth -- Church record-keeping and public health in early New England / James H. Cassedy -- Botanic remedies in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820 / George E. Gifford, Jr. -- Therapeutic practice in colonial New England / J. Worth Estes

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