Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850 by W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter
Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850

W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter

278 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history informative medium-paced

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First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers continued to rely on what would now be termed "fringe" practitioners - quacks, backstreet surgeons, bone-setters, Thomsonian botanists, holists and natural...

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