{"product_id":"doctors-of-the-american-frontier-1","title":"Doctors of the American frontier","description":"(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.\n\nHere, 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.\n\nAnd 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0006BMT0C\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.B0006BMT0C.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Dunlop, Richard\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46524359934129,"sku":"RDV.B0006BMT0C.A","price":9.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/B0006BMT0C-0.jpg?v=1766510681","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/doctors-of-the-american-frontier-1","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}