Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America
Health in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offered—from purging to...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Health in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offered—from purging to mere palliatives—carried a powerful authority. Consequently, most American doctors felt little need to keep up with Europe’s medical advances relying heavily on their traditional depletion methods. However, in the years following the American Revolution as poverty increased and America’s water and air became more polluted, people grew sicker. Traditional medicine became increasingly ineffective. Instead, Americans sought out both older and newer forms of alternative medicine and people who embraced these methods: midwives, folk healers, Native American shamans, African obeahs and the new botanical and water cure advocates.In this overview of health and healing in early America, Elaine G. Breslaw describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. Breslaw examines "ethnic borrowings" (of both disease and treatment) of early American medicine and the tension between trained doctors and the lay public. While orthodox medicine never fully lost its authority, Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic argues that their ascendance over other healers didn’t begin until the early twentieth century, as germ theory finally migrated from Europe to the United States and American medical education achieved professional standing |
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| spelling | Breslaw, Elaine G. Verfasser aut Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic Health Care in Early America Elaine G. Breslaw New York, NY New York University Press [2012] © 2012 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020) Health in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offered—from purging to mere palliatives—carried a powerful authority. Consequently, most American doctors felt little need to keep up with Europe’s medical advances relying heavily on their traditional depletion methods. However, in the years following the American Revolution as poverty increased and America’s water and air became more polluted, people grew sicker. Traditional medicine became increasingly ineffective. Instead, Americans sought out both older and newer forms of alternative medicine and people who embraced these methods: midwives, folk healers, Native American shamans, African obeahs and the new botanical and water cure advocates.In this overview of health and healing in early America, Elaine G. Breslaw describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. Breslaw examines "ethnic borrowings" (of both disease and treatment) of early American medicine and the tension between trained doctors and the lay public. While orthodox medicine never fully lost its authority, Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic argues that their ascendance over other healers didn’t begin until the early twentieth century, as germ theory finally migrated from Europe to the United States and American medical education achieved professional standing In English Geschichte 1620-1850 gnd rswk-swf HISTORY / General bisacsh Medical care History 18th century United States Medical care History 19th century United States Medical care United States History 18th century Medical care United States History 19th century Medicine History 18th century United States Medicine History 19th century United States Medicine United States History 18th century Medicine United States History 19th century Physicians History 18th century United States Physicians History 19th century United States Physicians United States History 18th century Physicians United States History 19th century Public health History 18th century United States Public health History 19th century United States Public health United States History 18th century Public health United States History 19th century Gesundheitswesen (DE-588)4020775-4 gnd rswk-swf Medizin (DE-588)4038243-6 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Medizin (DE-588)4038243-6 s Gesundheitswesen (DE-588)4020775-4 s Geschichte 1620-1850 z 1\p DE-604 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739389 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| topic | HISTORY / General bisacsh Medical care History 18th century United States Medical care History 19th century United States Medical care United States History 18th century Medical care United States History 19th century Medicine History 18th century United States Medicine History 19th century United States Medicine United States History 18th century Medicine United States History 19th century Physicians History 18th century United States Physicians History 19th century United States Physicians United States History 18th century Physicians United States History 19th century Public health History 18th century United States Public health History 19th century United States Public health United States History 18th century Public health United States History 19th century Gesundheitswesen (DE-588)4020775-4 gnd Medizin (DE-588)4038243-6 gnd |
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