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- Title
Quacks, Nostrums, and Miraculous Cures: Narratives of Medical Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century United States.
- Authors
Murison, Justine S.
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the narratives of medical professionalism in 19th century U.S. The author argues on the role of religion in the institutionalization of medicine around the Civil War period. In support of his argument, the author discusses the characterization of the improvement age by physician Benjamin Rush, the association of quackery with bad religion and medicine, and Circular No. 6 of Army Surgeon General William Alexander Hammond forbidding calomel and tartar emetic.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL practice; QUACKS &; quackery; RELIGION &; medicine; RUSH, Benjamin, 1746-1813; HAMMON, William Alexander; CALOMEL; TARTAR emetic; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Literature & Medicine, 2014, Vol 32, Issue 2, p419
- ISSN
0278-9671
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/lm.2014.0026