Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders
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A New England physician looks back on the habits, mistakes and beliefs that shaped his working life. William A. Alcott presents personal recollections and medical anecdotes in Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders, published in 1859. His opening account places childhood schooling beside fortune telling, household sayings and popular ideas about health, showing the environment from which his interest in medicine grew.
The short chapters examine treatment, diet, temperance and the public's trust in practitioners. Alcott questions the healing methods he once used and makes his own errors part of that inquiry. An account of a patient with a lame knee connects his arguments about daily habits with competing claims for cold water treatment. Readers interested in medical history can follow a physician's effort to reconsider his profession through cases and candid reflection.
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- Author
- William A. Alcott
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 309
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Memoir
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