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Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850 (Paperback)
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Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century
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First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine
progressed, many sufferers continued to rely on what would now be
termed "fringe" practitioners - quacks, backstreet surgeons,
bone-setters, Thomsonian botanists, holists and naturalists. Many
types of fringe medicine were popular in particular circles or
reflected the political or religious preoccupations of their
practitioners. Anti-establishment radicals might favour natural
medicine, Christian Scientists would reject the medical aid,
"Physical Puritans" would concentrate on homeopathy, hydropathy and
vegetarianism to create health rather than counter disease. Some
diseases, particularly venereal ones, allowed practitioners to play
unscrupulously on the guilt of their patients. The end of the
period saw professionalism establish itself in many areas, for
example with the foundation in 1852 of the Pharmaceutical Society,
and conflicts of fringe and orthodoxy became the fiercer. The
essays collected in this volume all present new research on this
fascinating and diverse period in the history of medicine.
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