Just tolerable - Witchcraft or Medicine?; 1978
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- Identifier
- MS1133-0190
- Title
- Just tolerable - Witchcraft or Medicine?; 1978
- Description
- Walter R. Wineman’s paper, "Just Tolerable" - Witchcraft or Medicine?, explores the historical attitudes toward health and medicine in early America, highlighting the contrasts between past and present medical practices. The paper discusses the impact of diseases, the primitive understanding of health, and the transition from superstitious treatments to more scientific approaches. Wineman also touches on the societal implications of medical practices and the roles of various figures in the medical field during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Date
- 30 March 1978
- Creator
- Wineman, Walter R.
- topic
- talk
- lecture
- SPHEX Club
- Walter R. Wineman
- Wineman
- 1978
- early American medicine
- health attitudes
- disease mortality
- medical history
- colonial America
- smallpox
- germ theory
- humoral theory
- medical licensing
- medical education
- infant mortality
- colonial epidemics
- Benjamin Rush
- medical superstition
- yellow fever
- Type
- Text
- Genre
- lectures
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- Walter R. Wineman