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Joseph Jones, M.D. - Scientist of the Old South (Paperback)
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Joseph Jones, M.D. - Scientist of the Old South (Paperback)
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Of the many books written over the past century about the Old South
and the American Civil War, a very few explore the scientific
history of the South or the medical history of the war itself. In
the first volume of this impressive biography of Joseph Jones, Mr.
Breeden does much to illuminate the development of scientific
thought and of medicine in the nineteenth-century South. Jones was
far in advance of most of his fellow physicians. The thoroughness
of his research, the tenacity of his effort, and the brilliance of
his findings won him respect while he was still a very young
scholar. When the war came, he showed himself fiercely patriotic as
a soldier but coldly empirical as a scientific investigator of many
infectious diseases. In the course of the biography the author
illumines the development of modern medicine in this country and
the state of the nation's medical schools in the middle of the
nineteenth century. The greater part of this volume is devoted to
Jones's wartime service, which was mainly behind the battle lines
in the hospitals and prison camps. The growth of the problem of
gangrene among the wounded -- a horrifying result of overcrowding
and lack of sanitation -- is examined in particularly telling
detail; the ravaging of the Andersonville prison camp by this and
other diseases was the subject of some of Jones's most
controversial research, and his written report as a reluctant
witness in the trial of the Southerners held responsible. At the
outset of the war, Joseph Jones was an energetic and well trained
young doctor with considerable experience in teaching and research;
by its end he was perhaps the foremost expert on infectious
diseases in the South or in the nation.
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