Doctors of the American frontier

(From jacket of the first edition): When a frontier gunman's wrist was shattered by a bullet, he lost his arm to amputation. When cholera struck a wagon train, the survivors buried the dead along the trail. Nineteenth-century medicine was harsh and primitive, and when a doctor could not be reached, pioneers often died from the hunting-knife surgery of a friend or from a homemade cure. Here, in all its color, is the story of frontier medicine. Thoroughly researched, yet written with a light and lively hand, this chronicle spins a yarn about the rough-and-tumble era of the pioneer West—the days of sodbuster surgeons, cowboy doctors, railroad sawbones, riverboat remedies, old wives' cures, and get-rich-quick quacks. And here are the great men of wilderness medicine: Ephraim McDowell who ignored the shouts of a lynch mob in backwoods Kentucky while he performed the first ovariectomy in medical history; William Beaumont, a surgeon at a Great Lakes military outpost, who studied human digestion through a gunshot wound in the stomach of a young voyageur; Daniel Drake, who wrote a masterful medical geography, mapping diseases and their causes in the interior wilderness of North America; and George Goodfellow, the famous gunshot surgeon of Tombstone, Arizona, who patched up the lucky survivors and performed post mortems on the not-so-lucky dead.
ASIN: B0006BMT0C
VSKU: RDV.B0006BMT0C.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Dunlop, Richard
Binding: Hardcover
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Condition Notes: This book is a well used but readable copy. This is an ex-library book with stickers and markings. Integrity of the book is still intact with no missing pages. May have notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.