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An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race: Beginnings to 1900 (Routledge, 2012). Deutsch, Albert. The mentally ill in America-A History of their care and treatment from colonial times (1937). Duffy, John. From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine (2nd ed. 1993) Duffy, John.
Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial times, to 1970. (1976) chapter B pp. 65–86.. online; Cassedy, James H. "The Roots of American Sanitary Reform 1843–47: Seven Letters from John H. Griscom to Lemuel Shattuck" Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (1975) 30#2 pp.136–147 online; Falk, I.S. et al.
Thomas Thacher was an outstanding Puritan preacher and physician of his time. [6] After coming to America at fifteen, Thacher received his early education under pastor Charles Chauncy. Thacher's education was liberal; he learned elements of medicine. Thacher committed much of his time to the practice of medicine and was a prominent physician in ...
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present is a 2007 book by Harriet A. Washington. It is a history of medical experimentation on African Americans .
After that, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1763. He subsequently toured Western Europe, studying medical practice in Paris and visiting Italy. During this time, he was elected to the Royal Academy of Surgery in Paris in 1764 and the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and of Edinburgh in 1765. [4]
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-215173-1. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006); 416pp; excerpt and text search. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search
Traditional medicine of pre-Columbian through contemporary Mesoamerica in southern North America and in South America.; This category (and subcategories) contains articles relating to the medical beliefs, rituals, remedies, and practices within the Mesoamerican culture area, from the pre-Columbian era, and including the maintenance and development of traditional medicine in colonial and ...
Aztec medicine concerns the body of knowledge, belief and ritual surrounding human health and sickness, as observed among the Nahuatl-speaking people in the Aztec realm of central Mexico. The Aztecs knew of and used an extensive inventory consisting of hundreds of different medicinal herbs and plants.