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Acknowledgments | vii | |
Personal Reflections: The Country Doctor | ix | |
Preface: The Past Enlightens the Future | xvii | |
Overview: Milestones of Medical Progress | xxi | |
Introduction: The Metamorphosis of American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century | 1 | |
Part 1 | Old West Healers and Healing | |
1 | Indian Medicine: Native American Health Before and After the White Man | 19 |
2 | Lewis and Clark: Keelboat Physicians | 45 |
3 | Mountain Men: Hunting-Knife Surgeons | 63 |
4 | Health on the Western Trails: Hope and Suffering | 73 |
5 | Gold Camp Sawbones: Life and Death in the Western Mining Districts | 87 |
6 | Unsung Heroes: Army Surgeons on the Frontier | 107 |
7 | "Granny Remedies": Pioneer Women and Folk Medicine | 131 |
8 | Miracle Cures: Quackery, Fraud, and Faith | 149 |
9 | Homestead Doctors: House Calls on the Great Plains | 167 |
10 | "No Prejudice Against Women": Female Physicians in the West | 201 |
Part 2 | Public Health and Health Education on the Frontier | |
11 | Early Western Hospitals | 215 |
12 | The Professional Nurse | 239 |
13 | Sanitation and Public Health | 251 |
14 | Epidemic Diseases in the West | 259 |
Epilogue: Medicine in the Third Millennium | 299 | |
Notes | 301 | |
Glossary | 323 | |
Works Cited | 329 | |
Index | 351 |
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