Iowa pharmacy, 1880-1905: an experiment in professionalism
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Main Author: Anderson, Lee (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City University of Iowa Press 1989
Edition:1st ed
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-171) and index
Popular culture remembers the settling of the Midwest as a golden era of unbounded opportunity, a time when every farm was a family farm and every farmer glowed with health. Pioneers in nineteenth-century Iowa, however, had to battle a formidable host of diseases during this golden era & mdash;malaria was endemic, smallpox and dysentery occurred in widespread epidemics, and typhoid, cholera, scarlet fever, and diphtheria had their seasons. Physicians in the growing Hawkeye State had little of the status and skill they command today, and herbalists, hydropaths, eclectics, Thomsonians, and homeopa
Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: "The Physician's Cook" Pharmacy, Medical History, and the History of the Professions; Chapter 2: "All the Nostrum in the Country" Diseases, Doctors, and Druggists in Early Iowa; Chapter 3: "A True Temperance Reform Measure" Social Reform and the Professionalization of Pharmacy; Chapter 4: "Be Sure You Are Right" The Commission of Pharmacy and the Politics of Regulation; Chapter 5: "An Organization Enthusiastically Supported" The Iowa State Pharmaceutical Association and the Politics of Professionalism
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 178 pages)
ISBN:0877452490
1587290073
9780877452492
9781587290077

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