Revolutionary Medicine 1700-1800

Plot

Physicians during the Revolutionary era often held scientific beliefs and employed practices so rudimentary that they often endangered, rather than cured, their patients. In this book, C. Keith Wilbur, a physician himself, describes how American medicine began its transformation from medieval superstition to modern science during this period of battlefield medicine. This new edition features a new section of "Revolutionary Medical Highlights" -- unusual happenings that include King George's medical problems, body snatching for anatomy classes, and Revere the dentist.