Title Langstaff : a nineteenth-century medical life / Jacalyn Duffin

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Contents Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: The Making of a Doctor -- CHAPTER TWO: The Professional and Social World of a Nineteenth-Century Doctor -- CHAPTER THREE: Medical Knowledge in Diagnosis: Physical Signs at the Bedside -- CHAPTER FOUR: Medical Knowledge in Therapy: Old Stand-bys, Innovations, and Intangibles -- CHAPTER FIVE: Patients and Their Diseases: Morbidity and Mortality in Children and Adults -- CHAPTER SIX: Lunatics, Dreamers, and Drunks CHAPTER SEVEN: Accidents, Injuries, and Operations: Langstaff's Practice of SurgeryCHAPTER EIGHT: Birthing and Its Problems in Langstaff's Practice of Obstetrics -- CHAPTER NINE: Therapy through Social Action: Lawyers, Politics, and Public Health -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: A Note on Method -- Appendix B: Professional Associates of James Miles Langstaff -- 1 Partners and Medical Students in Langstaff's Practice -- 2 Women Attendants and 'Nurses' in Langstaff's Practice -- 3 Medical Colleagues, Location, Qualifications, and Dates Appendix C: Langstaff's Personal Library and CharitiesAppendix D: Langstaff's Properties -- Appendix E: Therapies in Langstaff's Daybooks -- 1 Langstaff's Pharmacopoeia -- 2 Dietary and Alcohol-Containing Substances -- 3 Methods of Bleeding -- 4 Mechanical Methods -- Appendix F: Medical Diagnoses in Langstaff's Daybooks -- Notes -- List of Manuscript and Printed Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T Uv -- w -- y Summary A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Langstaff, James Miles, 1825-1889. SUBJECT Langstaff, James Miles, 1825-1889 fast Langstaff, James M. swd Subject Medicine -- Ontario -- Richmond Hill -- History -- 19th century Physicians -- Ontario -- Richmond Hill -- Biography Physicians. Medicine -- History. Physicians -- Ontario -- Richmond Hill -- Biography Physicians History of Medicine History, 19th Century physicians. history of medicine. HISTORY -- Canada -- General. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine. MEDICAL -- Atlases. MEDICAL -- Essays. MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice. MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Osteopathy. Medicine Physicians SUBJECT Ontario https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009864 Subject Ontario -- Richmond Hill Genre/Form Electronic books collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 94147960 ISBN 9781442676381 1442676388

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