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Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850

Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850

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Series: Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Ni

Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1138391360
ISBN13: 9781138391369
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 14 2020
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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