001479746 000__ 05335nam\a22008895i\4500 001479746 001__ 1479746 001479746 003__ DE-B1597 001479746 005__ 20231026035109.0 001479746 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479746 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479746 008__ 230918t20122012nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479746 010__ $$a2012016648 001479746 020__ $$a9780814739389 001479746 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814787175.001.0001$$2doi 001479746 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547620 001479746 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479746 0410_ $$aeng 001479746 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479746 05000 $$aR152$$b.B725 2012 001479746 050_4 $$aR152$$b.B725 2016 001479746 072_7 $$aHIS000000$$2bisacsh 001479746 08204 $$a362.10973$$223 001479746 1001_ $$aBreslaw, Elaine G., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479746 24510 $$aLotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic :$$bHealth Care in Early America /$$cElaine G. Breslaw. 001479746 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2012] 001479746 264_4 $$c©2012 001479746 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479746 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479746 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479746 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479746 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479746 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tList of Illustrations -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Columbian Exchange -- $$t2. Epidemics -- $$t3. Tools of the Trade -- $$t4. Abundance -- $$t5. Wartime -- $$t6. New Nation -- $$t7. Giving Birth -- $$t8. The Face of Madness -- $$t9. Democratic Medicine -- $$t10. Public Health -- $$tConclusion -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tBibliographic Essay -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479746 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479746 520__ $$aHealth in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offered-from purging to mere palliatives-carried a powerful authority. Consequently, most American doctors felt little need to keep up with Europe's medical advances relying heavily on their traditional depletion methods. However, in the years following the American Revolution as poverty increased and America's water and air became more polluted, people grew sicker. Traditional medicine became increasingly ineffective. Instead, Americans sought out both older and newer forms of alternative medicine and people who embraced these methods: midwives, folk healers, Native American shamans, African obeahs and the new botanical and water cure advocates.In this overview of health and healing in early America, Elaine G. Breslaw describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. Breslaw examines "ethnic borrowings" (of both disease and treatment) of early American medicine and the tension between trained doctors and the lay public. While orthodox medicine never fully lost its authority, Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic argues that their ascendance over other healers didn't begin until the early twentieth century, as germ theory finally migrated from Europe to the United States and American medical education achieved professional standing. 001479746 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479746 546__ $$aIn English. 001479746 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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