Emmons Rutledge Booth

History of Osteopathy

• Author(s): Emmons Rutledge Booth

• Categories: Osteopathic medicine

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2006
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• Publisher: JOLANDOS eK

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Marketplace of the Marvelous

• Author(s): Erika Janik

• Categories: Medical

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2014-01-07
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• Publisher: Beacon Press

An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a point Despite rampant scientific innovation in nineteenth-century America, traditional medicine still adhered to ancient healing methods, subjecting patients to bleeding, blistering, and induced vomiting and sweating. Facing such horrors, many patients ran with open arms to burgeoning practices that promised new ways to cure their ills. Hydropaths offered cures using “healing waters” and tight wet-sheet wraps. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby experimented with magnets and tried to replace “bad,” diseased thoughts with “good,” healthy thoughts, while Daniel David Palmer reportedly restored a ma...

Carry A. Nation

• Author(s): Fran Grace

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2001-07-20
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• Publisher: Indiana University Press

Carry A. NationRetelling the Life Fran Grace The story of one of America's most notorious and misunderstood women. Carry Nation was 54 when she "smashed" her first saloon, but her life before she started her infamous hatchet crusade has been little known until now. In this first scholarly biography of Nation, Fran Grace unfolds a story that often contrasts with the image of Nation as "Crazy Carry," a bellicose, blue-nosed, man-hating killjoy. Using newly available archival materials and placing Nation in her various historical and cultural contexts, Grace "retells" the crusader's tumultuous life. Brought up in antebellum Kentucky, Nation lived through the devastation of the Civil War and end...

Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati

• Author(s): Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

• Categories: Classified catalogs

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1890
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Union List of Osteopathic Literature

• Categories: Osteopathic medicine

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1989
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• Publisher: Unknown

A compendium of books, periodicals, pamphlets, data bases, and audio-visual materials available at various osteopathic institutions. Includes contributor and subject indexes.