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Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911 S, Haller Jr, John
Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911
S, Haller Jr, John
A history of this high-brow school of medicine, Physio-Medicalism. They promoted the belief that the body has a ""vital force"" that can be used to heal and substituted botanical medicines for allopathy's mineral drugs. The author traces their establishment and their descent into obscurity.
232 pages, 6 halftones, 8 line drawings, notes, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 8, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780873385770 |
| Publishers | Kent State University Press |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 162 × 22 mm · 492 g |
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