The Great American Medicine Show: Being an Illustrated History of Hucksters, Healers, Health Evangelists, and Heroes from Plymouth Rock to the PresentBeginning 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 |
Contents
Early American Medicine | 1 |
Green Medicine | 13 |
Every Man His Own Doctor | 23 |
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