Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941

From the era of exploration to the beginning of World War II, a compelling study of the evolution of American medicine draws on diaries, newspapers, letters, advertisements, and medical records to detail traditional Indian medical practices, home remedies of early settlers, the role of country doctors and midwives, army medicine, the formation of the AMA, and beyond. 20,000 first printing.