Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939 (Studies in Writing & Rhetoric) Hardcover – February 9, 1994
Author: John S. Haller Jr. ID: 0809318946
About the Author
John S. Haller, Jr., is a professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Series: Studies in Writing & RhetoricHardcover: 368 pagesPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press; 1st edition (February 9, 1994)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0809318946ISBN-13: 978-0809318940 Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #1,822,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2355 in Books > Medical Books > History #25730 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Alternative Medicine
From Wooster Beech’s founding of the eclectic medical movement in the 1820s as "Reformed Medicine" to the final closing of Cincinnati’s Eclectic Medical College in 1939, this botanical movement influenced the practice of the healing arts in America’s heartland in significant ways. Now at long last we have a thorough, objective treatment of these colorful practitioners in John Haller’s _Medical Protestants_.
Until this book, the only remotely similar work was Alexander Wilder’s _History of Medicine_ (1899), a highly partisan and not always reliable account of eclecticism.
Most modern treatments have been confined to articles analyzing one or just a few aspects of eclecticisim. But Haller’s treatment is comprehensive, covering all aspects of this group devoted primarily to herbal remedies in opposition to the allopathic (i.e., regular) physicians’ practice of heroic therapies like bleeding, purging, and massive dosing with calomel. Neither dismissing the eclectics as quacks nor uncritically eulogizing them as progressive mavericks, Haller’s assessment is balanced and his conclusions are well supported by primary resources.
Readers will find Haller’s writing lively and the book well illustrated. No one interested in herbal medicine or the history of the American sectarian medical movement should miss this book. It is destined to be cited for years to come — and deservedly so
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