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Hardcover Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America Book

ISBN: 0814787177

ISBN13: 9780814787175

Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America

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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...

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