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Iowa pharmacy, 1880-1905 : an experiment in professionalism /
Popular culture remembers the settling of the Midwest as a golden era of unbounded opportunity, a time when every farm was a family farm and every farmer glowed with health. Pioneers in nineteenth-century Iowa, however, had to battle a formidable host of diseases during this golden era & mdash;m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
1989.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Popular culture remembers the settling of the Midwest as a golden era of unbounded opportunity, a time when every farm was a family farm and every farmer glowed with health. Pioneers in nineteenth-century Iowa, however, had to battle a formidable host of diseases during this golden era & mdash;malaria was endemic, smallpox and dysentery occurred in widespread epidemics, and typhoid, cholera, scarlet fever, and diphtheria had their seasons. Physicians in the growing Hawkeye State had little of the status and skill they command today, and herbalists, hydropaths, eclectics, Thomsonians, and homeopa. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 178 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-171) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1587290073 9781587290077 |