"Provides a comprehensive description of what being sick and receiving "medical care" was like in 19th-century America, allowing modern readers to truly appreciate the scale of the improvements in healthcare theory and practice"--Provided by publisher.
twenty years that transformed the way we think about disease
Waller, John
2002
Examines a twenty year period in the history of medicine, from 1879 to 1900, during which germ theory came to be accepted as common knowledge which totally transformed the field.
