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Richard J. Kahn
This previously unpublished primary source allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced two hundred years ago by a rural physician in New England through his case histories, correspondence, biographical sketches, and personal commentary.
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.001.0001
Autor:
Richard J. Kahn
Publikováno v:
Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820
Barker states that he would “hereafter describe these cancerous affections;” the remainder of this chapter is devoted to cases of anasarca, ascites, and dropsy. Cancer is discussed in chapter 9. Barker describes a number of patients who were amas
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0013
Autor:
Richard J. Kahn
Publikováno v:
Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820
In 1795 Barker read Lavoisier’s chemistry, experimented on tainted meat made edible by soaking in alkalis, and began using alkaline therapy such a limewater. He wrote about this to Samuel Mitchill and Benjamin Rush, telling them that he had been ca
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0004
Autor:
Richard J. Kahn
Barker presents several cases of hydrophobia, or rabies, written by physicians in the United States and abroad, with two apparent “cures.” For example, Joseph Gallup of Vermont apparently cured a case of a twenty-eight-year-old male bitten in the
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0012
Autor:
Richard J. Kahn
Publikováno v:
Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820
In addition to the use of bleeding and mercurials, in this chapter Barker illustrates the beneficial effects of emetics, cathartics, alkalines, and digitalis as well as epispastics, issues, setons and cauteries, opiates, tonics, suitable diet, and sa
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0021
Autor:
Richard J. Kahn
Barker discusses contributing factors, symptoms, and treatment of tracheal consumption in five of his patients from Falmouth, Stroudwater, Gorham, and Westbrook. Treatments include calomel, alkalis, and opium for cough suppression. He adds a comment
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0018
https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0018
Autor:
Richard J. Kahn
Publikováno v:
Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820
Barker defines pulmonary consumption as a wasting disease with destruction of the lungs, explaining that the poor results of treatments by the ancients was due to medical instruction “destitute of anatomical knowledge.” He cites Thomas Reid and q
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0019
Autor:
Richard J. Kahn
Publikováno v:
Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820
After brief comments on Hippocrates, Celsus, Cullen, and others, Barker discusses “the unfortunate [John] Brown,” whose “excentric notions & heated imagination . . . fascinated a considerable number of physicians, both in Europe & America.” A
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0023
https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0023
Autor:
Richard J. Kahn
Publikováno v:
Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820
The quest for timely medical literature was a concern for elite as well as rural physicians in the United States, as evidenced by comments from Drs. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia; Benjamin Vaughan of Hallowell, Maine; and Lyman Spalding of Portsmouth
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0002
Autor:
Richard J. Kahn
Publikováno v:
Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820
This chapter includes a series of unusual cases from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Georgia, London, and Paris. A twenty-five-year-old Maine woman with the usual symptoms of pulmonary consumption developed postpartum chest pains and a swollen l
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https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190053253.003.0025