Doctor Franklin's Medicine
Stanley Finger
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First printing. A fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. Interesting fore-edge illustration of Franklin. Hardcover. 379 pp. with index, illustrations. Among his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin ws instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school in the American colonies; studied the efficacy of smallpox innoculation, and even investigated the causes of the common cold. The author examines how Franklin approached medicine in the spirit of the Enlightenment and with the mindset of a natural philosopher, seeking cures for diseases and methods of alleviating symptoms. Seller Inventory # E27385
Bibliographic Details
Title: Doctor Franklin's Medicine
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: fine
Edition: First edition.
About this title
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Among his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and 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 medical knowledge, including a look at how Franklin approached his own chronic illnesses of painful gout and a large bladder stone. Written in accessible prose and filled with new information on the breadth of Franklin's interests and activities, Doctor Franklin's Medicine reveals the impressive medical legacy of this Founding Father.
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