Kindly Medicine: Physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911

Kent State University Press (1997)
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A history of this high-brow school of medicine, Physio-Medicalism. They promoted the belief that the body has a vital force that can be used to heal and substituted botanical medicines for allopathy's mineral drugs. The author traces their establishment and their descent into obscurity.

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