ISBN10: 081223913X, ISBN13: 9780812239133, [publisher: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR] Hardcover Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that Benjamin Franklin-scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman-played in the development of the healing arts, giving preventive and bedside medicine, hospital care, and even personal hygiene a modern look .
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ISBN10: 081223913X, ISBN13: 9780812239133, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Hardcover First Edition Among his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the causes of the common cold. His inventions -- including bifocal lenses and a "long arm" that extended the user's reach -- made life easier for the aged and afflicted. In DOCTOR FRANKLIN'S MEDICINE, Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that this scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman played in the development of the healing arts -- enhancing preventive and bedside medicine, hospital care, and even personal hygiene in ways that changed the face of medical care in both America and Europe. As Finger shows, Franklin approached medicine in the spirit of the Enlightenment and with the mindset of an experimental natural philosopher, seeking cures for diseases and methods of alleviating symptoms of illnesses. He was one of the first people to try to use electrical shocks to help treat paralytic strokes and hysteria, and even suggested applying shocks to the head to treat depressive disorders. He also strove to topple one of the greatest fads in eighteenth-century medicine: mesmerism. DOCTOR FRANKLIN'S MEDICINE looks at these and the many other contributions that Franklin made to the progress of ...

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