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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ward, Patricia Spain
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1994.
Series:History of American science and technology series.
Subjects:
Baruch, Simon, > 1840-1921.
Baruch, Simon, > 1840-1921
1800-1899
Physicians > United States > Biography.
Medicine > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Balneology > United States > History.
Physicians.
Physicians
History, 19th Century
Hydrotherapy > history
Médecins > États-Unis > Biographies.
Médecine > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Balnéologie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecins.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
physicians.
MEDICAL > Physicians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
Balneology
Medicine
Baden (hygiëne)
South Carolina
United States
Virginia
Southern States
Verenigde Staten.
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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