Doctor Franklin's medicine /
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 that changed the face of medical care in...
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Table of Contents:
- Benjamin Franklin's enlightened medicine
- I: The colonist and medicine
- Poor Richard's medicine
- In praise of exercise
- The smallpox wars
- The citizen and the hospital
- Electricity and the Palsies
- Electricity, mental disorders, and a modest proposal
- II: Medicine in Great Britain
- Friends and medical connections
- Scotland and the first American medical school
- Colds, the weather, and the invisible world
- Fresh air and good health
- The perils of lead
- III: Le docteur in France
- French medicine and health imperatives
- The folly of mesmerism
- From music therapy to the music of madness
- IV: Old age, illnesses, and the doctor's death
- Bifocals and the aging inventor
- Skin and "scurf"
- The gout as your friend?
- A debilitating stone
- The limits of medicine
- Franklin's medical legacy.