BelleBlackburn
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2012
- Location
- Nashville, TN
Doctoring the South by Steven Stowe.
I have mentioned the book in some other thread on this site but thought I would post it here for the likeminded. I stumbled across this book at the library a few years ago and checked it out. I thought I might flip through it but ended up reading it cover to cover. It is taken from the daybooks of the physicks. It is a real insight into how the mind of the mid 1800s physician worked. It is so different from now. It also talks about how much they charged for different things. These were not army physicians but it gives insight into the practices they came from.
Looking back on the "crazy" things they thought and prescribed I soberly reflect on the fact that 150 years from now we will be viewed the same way. I wonder if our time will be known as the Chemical Age, when we threw chemicals at everything in the form of a pill. Better living through chemistry...
I have mentioned the book in some other thread on this site but thought I would post it here for the likeminded. I stumbled across this book at the library a few years ago and checked it out. I thought I might flip through it but ended up reading it cover to cover. It is taken from the daybooks of the physicks. It is a real insight into how the mind of the mid 1800s physician worked. It is so different from now. It also talks about how much they charged for different things. These were not army physicians but it gives insight into the practices they came from.
Looking back on the "crazy" things they thought and prescribed I soberly reflect on the fact that 150 years from now we will be viewed the same way. I wonder if our time will be known as the Chemical Age, when we threw chemicals at everything in the form of a pill. Better living through chemistry...