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From Snake Oil to Medicine - Pioneering Public Health (Hardcover)
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From Snake Oil to Medicine - Pioneering Public Health (Hardcover)
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Without Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health,
diseases festering in water sources, food, and the common towel at
the turn of the 20th century would have caused thousands of deaths
in the United States and beyond. Crumbine and his associates paved
the way to better treatment of tuberculosis and other common
diseases. This well-written account leads the reader down a path of
crucial medical advancements. Samuel J. Crumbine was a medical
educator without peer, who used his department of health to
disseminate the latest developments he and others throughout the
world were achieving in public health. He found it necessary to
propagandize a skeptical and sometimes hostile public to accept the
germ theory, the idea that invisible microbes were making them ill
and that they should clean up their environment and their food and
water sources. He had to convince the public to rely on modern
medicine, not snake oil and other miracle cures for a healthy
living. R. Alton Lee's historical account might offer insight in
today's threat of Bird Flu and other recent medical threats for any
reader.
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