Simon Baruch: Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921

by Patricia Spain Ward

Book Overview

This biography recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation's best-known physicians by the turn of the century. After medical study in South Carolina and Virginia on the eve of the Civil War, Baruch served the Confederacy as a surgeon for three years, twice undergoing capture and internment. Despite economic hardships while practicing in South Carolina...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817305890
• ISBN13: 9780817305895
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"