| Description |
xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Healing society--disease, medicine, and history |
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Healing society--disease, medicine, and history.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index. |
| Contents |
The wild West -- Promoting public health -- Confronting the great white scourge -- Improving child health -- Fighting the great war at home -- The civilized East -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
"From Snake Oil to Medicine tells an almost unbelievable story about America's past. It is a story about a trusting public, about the "snake oil" salesmen who took advantage of their innocence, and about pioneering scientists like Samuel J. Crumbine, M.D., who tried to end practices that, at best, wasted money and, at worst, threatened public health. In one short period documented in From Snake Oil to Medicine, Crumbine confronted just a few practices common in the late-19th and early-20th centuries."--Jacket. |
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Crumbine, Samuel J. (Samuel Jay), 1862-1954.
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Public health personnel -- Kansas -- Biography.
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Physicians.
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Public health.
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Medicine -- History.
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Crumbine, Samuel J. (Samuel Jay), 1862-1954 (OCoLC)fst01660732
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Public health (OCoLC)fst01082238
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Physicians (OCoLC)fst01062841
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Medicine (OCoLC)fst01014893
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Public health personnel (OCoLC)fst01082397
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Kansas (OCoLC)fst01204323
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History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780275994679 (alk. paper) |
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0275994678 (alk. paper) |
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