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Gr 6 Up—Beginning with the arrival of colonists to the New World, Younker provides readers with a chronicle of medical care in early U.S. history. The heroic method—a combination of medical practices that included bleeding, blistering, and purging—was a key component of patient care well into the mid-1800s. Illness was often attributed to out-of-sync humors—a theory, as Younker explains, that harkens back to the influential writings of early physicians Hippocrates and Galen. Employed to rebalance the humors, heroic medic...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In addition to early American medicine, the narrative touches on eighteenth-century European medicine, displays of medical and anatomical anomalies...Log In or Sign Up to Read More