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

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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. Ward reconstructs the life of a medical student in the South at the opening of the...

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Autor principal: Ward, Patricia Spain
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1753.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Physicians > United States > Biography.
Physicians > Biography.
Medicine > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921.
Balneology > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; 1. Amerika, du hast es besser
  • 2. To Become a Doctor; 3. Confederate Surgeon; 4. Gettysburg to Appomattox; 5. The New York Interlude; 6. No balm in Gilead
  • 7. Let us be up and doing
  • 8. The Therapeutic Optimist; 9. Reunion and Reform; 10. Smallpox and the New South; 11. No field for enterprise
  • 12. Baruch Makes His Mark; 13. The Apostle of Cleanliness; 14. Ikey, Ikey, save the soap
  • 15. The Gospel of Hydrotherapy; 16. The Wizard of Spas; 17. Dr. Baruch of the Sun; 18. Before I go hence
  • Notes; Notes on Sources; Index.

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