Purge and Bleed (eBook)

Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Stagnation of American Medicine

Marshall Foletta (Autor)

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2025
282 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5313-7 (ISBN)

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Explaining the deadly stasis of American medicine in the nineteenth century The 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia was a shock to the system of American medicineor it should have been. In the decades that followed the most infamous health crisis of the early republic, American doctors by and large failed to move beyond ancient ideas of disease and treatment. The contentiousness of Philadelphia's medical community, led by Benjamin Rush, prevented any meaningful advances in response to the outbreak. Marshall Foletta investigates this peculiar dormancy over the course of the long nineteenth century and reveals how little had changed by the time of the 1832 cholera epidemicleading, he argues, to exhaustion and despair among medical professionals and fatalism among the general public. Only at the end of the century did researchers make the all-important breakthroughs that produced an antidote to yellow fever. This is the story of how received wisdom became dangerously entrenched in the early United States, and the deadly consequences of scientific stagnation and intellectual inertia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b&w illus
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: Anton van Leeuwenhoek • Benjamin Rush • Black immunity • bloodletting • Childbed fever • Cholera • College of PhiladelphiaUniversity of Pennsylvania • Continental Army medical corps • depletion theories • depletion therapies • disease and imperialism • Early American medical journals • Edward Jenner • Elihu Smith • homeopathy • Humoral theory • Isaac Cathrall • John Brown • john morgan • Josiah Clark Nott • medical marketplace • Miasma • mosquito vector • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. • patent medicines • Pharmacy • Polygenesis • puerperal fever • Robert Hooke • Robert Koch • Samuel Hahnemann • Samuel Thomson • sanitation campaigns • Spanish American War • The Medical Repository • Thomas Say • University of Pennsylvania • Walter Reed • William Cobbett • William Currie • William Shippen, Jr.
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5313-8 / 0813953138
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5313-7 / 9780813953137