The Great American Medicine Show: Being an Illustrated History of Hucksters, Healers, Health Evangelists, and Heroes from Plymouth Rock to the Present

Front Cover
Prentice Hall, 1991 - Medical - 292 pages
Beginning with early American medicine, the Armstrongs profile some of the best-known medical figures, divine healers, medicine men, reformers, and just plain quacks, and delineate the kinds of treatment they championed. Includes some 100 interesting and often humorous illustrations of historic advertisements, cartoons, and the like. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

From inside the book

Contents

Early American Medicine
1
Green Medicine
13
Every Man His Own Doctor
23
Copyright

26 other sections not shown

Common terms and phrases

Bibliographic information