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92 midwifery" and a section on diseases of children. Eastman's announced purpose was to "guide the people in a plain and prompt manner in the discharge of their duty, to instruct the untaught, learn the ignorant, direct the enquiring, and guide the inexperienced in the practical path of safety . . . to collect from all other systems that which Y>all be useful in a practical point of view— to place in your hands, a rule, a guide, and a touch-stone, that you may know where there is danger— be wise where there is ignorance—kind where there is suffering— that you may relieve where there is distress— that you may help where there is need—and be useful where there is opportunity." An interesting little book is the pocket-size one hundredpage Symptoms and Treatment of All Diseases, "written" and printed by H. D. Mason at Cedarville, Ohio, in 1843. Mason drew largely upon Dr. Mackintosh. He was strictly up to date on fevers, listing as causes marshmiasma, contagion, epidemic influence, cold, fear, despondence, and fatigue. His treatment for remittent fever included bleeding, "10 and 10" of jalap and calomel, "Dovers poweders," pearlash and vinegar, and blisters. Brandy, bitters and quinine were to be given during recovery. For asthma he prescribed coffee, lobelia, skunk's cabbage, licorice squills, poultice of hops and flaxseed, and galvanism. For Asiatic cholera, shave the head and apply cold water; for delirium tremens use emetics, opium, cupping, and a strong tea of wormv/ood. Mason mixed his mercurials and botanic remedies freely. Like Dr. Buchan, another doctor whose ideas on preventive medicine were somewhat in advance of his time was Dr. William Matthews of Putnam County, Indiana, whose A Treatise on Domestic Medicine and Kindred Subjects Embracing Anatomical and Physiological Sketches of th^ Human Body was published at Indianapolis in 1848. Dr. Matthews held in rather general contempt the medicine of the period as practiced alike by the regulars, irregulars, and quacks. There were fourflushers within the "Regular Faculty," dangerous men to be pitied, but to be eliminated.
nevertheless. The other quacks "are either inexcusably 93 ignorant, or they are designing villains"— frequently both. Aside from some of his ideas on diet—more caution should be exercised in the use of carrots and the like than in the eating of sweet potatoes, beans, and peas, and meat should be preferred over vegetables — there is little to suggest the period in which Matthews wrote. One of the most popular of the many domestic-medicine books was that of Dr. John C. Gunn, Dovtesfic Medicine or Poor Man's Friend, in the House of Affliction, Pain and Sickness. This work, originally published at Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1830, went through so many "editions" that it is impossible to enumerate them. Besides various Tennessee printings, editions appeared at Springfield and Xenia, Ohio. By the ninth edition, 1839, the book claimed sales of over one hundred thousand copies. It was topping the field in sales in the 1850's and after the Civil War; with active agents all over the West it reached its two hundred thirteenth "edition" in 1885. There were also various German printings. As Dr. Gunn said on his title-page, "This Book Points Out, in Plain Language, Free from Doctor's Terms, The Diseases of Men, Women and Children, and the Latest and Most Approved Means Used in Their Cure, and is Expressly Written For The Benefit of Families In The Western and Southern States. It also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the southern and western country, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases. Arranged on a new and simple plan, by which the practice of medicine is reduced to principles of common sense." The truth of the last sentence mJght be doubted som.ewhat by the reader but the importance of the work can not be questioned. In the introduction of the 1835 edition the author described the fine state of health, both mental and physical, in which man lived in the "early days of nature." After his sinning "his days are shortened and encumbered with disease . . . the earth brings forth thorns and briars." Civili-
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THE DOCTOR ON HORSEBACK
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Copyright 1945 by R. Carlyle Buley
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FOREWORD 1 n this book, first publi
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" I. "HE'S AILIN' CONTENTS II. HOME
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Within a few hours it was well belo
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10 whites who reached the Mississip
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14 to get tenderers for the sick. I
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16 that the quantity of ardent spir
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18 gan Territory "shook so that the
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20 When the postponingy when it occ
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22 Black Tongue, was epidemic at di
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24 physician or other citizen of th
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26 by November 8. It was estimated
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28 and collapse. The fate of many v
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30 phur was an effective specific.
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32 dence of virility and social sta
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34 of this survey, an exception is
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36 Naturally Indian influences were
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38 which Serve for the use of Medic
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40 through the writings of Spanish
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Page 62 and 63: 48 SHORT SKETCH OF THE AND ADVENTUR
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Page 68 and 69: 54 'Since man, to man, is so unjust
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Page 122 and 123: 108 Yandell of Louisville, who had
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Page 130 and 131: 116 phia Eclectic Repertory and Ana
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Page 136 and 137: 122 the Transylvania School." The r
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Page 142 and 143: 128 product of the West to be gradu
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142 in medical education. According
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144 and temperance agitation of the
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146 were to be its medical and surg
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148 Chicago had a number of hospita
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150 by the following year, likewise
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152 special use of students he publ
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154 ment of which every doctor in A
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156 WESTERN JOURNAL MEDICAIi AND PH
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158 such items of public interest a
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160 and Drs. Zana Pitcher, "W. Brod
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162 to advantage by fastidious pers
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164 devote as much of his time in l
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166 eye specialists began to appear
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168 of the faith in our art," wrote
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170 the emetic lobelia, which in la
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172 whole body from the air, and th
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174 or any honest man, as they are
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176 copy right in Boston, and print
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178 waiting an hour and a half, I a
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180 Howard and most of his family f
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182 while preaching the advantages
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184 convention address he summarize
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186 honored with the presence of se
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188 "Take a double handful of Wild-
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190 sons . . . [which] under the or
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192 by Dr. Thomas Vaughan Morrow as
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194 and regular, and failed to attr
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196 in the same building in which D
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198 Indianapolis in 1857, and in th
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200 Erlangen, from which he was gra
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202 to avoid any mistake in their e
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204 would be absurd and injurious t
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206 to the billionth, trillionth, q
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208 cure," things were in a bad way
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210 a special brochure, "The Preten
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212 is still a barren field." Drawi
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214 the honors of the College, as I
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216 a lease on the building in 1858
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218 In the Cincinnati Lancet and Ob
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220 seriousness of his condition. T
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222 gradually took up Grahamism and
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224 America" and "The American Spur
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226 travels, Notes on the United St
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228 Buchanan's father was a profess
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230 continually downcast obey with
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232 destruction of health and Hfe b
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234 Dr. Carter had his hypo, Dr. Th
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236 of the mode of life. In many ca
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238 the shade. He would confess, on
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WHO IS A DOCTOR CHAPTER VI ^Who sha
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242 they became weaker with the adv
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244 tended cures; and handbill away
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246 that plant remedies, some good,
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248 A somewhat different kind of tr
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250 in the future, medical schools
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252 As frontier communities settled
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254 forming to the procedure specif
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256 "studied physic and surgery for
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258 required by this law to render
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260 annual meeting of the Society,
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262 Wisconsin in 1841 incorporated
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264 or distributors to go even to P
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266 Castor oil, sweet oil, essence
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268 The pioneer doctor wrote few pr
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270 Occasionally an editor joined t
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) 274 Already by 1830, in addition
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276 or Concentrated Salt of Pulmel,
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278 and Ague, &c. . . ." Though it
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280 Fifteen years later Morrison's
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282 had in mind in the 1850's when
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. 284 Piles, &c." (No testimonials
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— 286 Others contained laudanum,
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288 business of the next hundred ye
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NOTES NOTES: CHAPTER ONE ^Described
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293 ^ For background of almost four
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295 NOTES: CHAPTER THREE ^ This ins
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297 ^* Dr. John Richmond, "History
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299 series of letters to his childr
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303 to the spread of the good cause
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" Laws of the State of Indiana (183
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Since most of
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309 phia, 1861), and Autobiography
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311 Packard, New York, 1917-42) ; B
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313 and Collateral Branches of Scie
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315 Edwin Smith and the Ebers papyr
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317 Practices and Diseases of the A
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319 1822); "Discourse on the Histor
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321 Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Me
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323 sonian Defender, July, 1835, to
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A 9 INDEX Address on . . . Intellec
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327 Caldwell, Charles, 123, 157, 22
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329 Dudley, Benjamin W., 117, 121-1
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331 "Improved Botanies," 182 Improv
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333 Medical Flora (Rafinesque), 44-
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335 "Pope's College," 135 "Potency,
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337 System of Surgery (Gross), 151
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