Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0865050309, Paperback)

Topics covered;Early attitudes to health and medicineThe lack of knowledge about germs and disease caused the early settlers to wrongly treat the patientBleeding, blistering and amputation were standard treatmentsHerbal remedies were sometimes effectiveThe Indians taught remedies to settlersIdeas about cleanliness and nutritionEarly vitamin discoveriesContaminated food and milkEnvironmental health problemsChildhood diseasesEpidemics: cholera, typhus, smallpox and TBEducation of the early doctorsGreat contributors to medicine: Harvey, Galen, Jenner, Pasteur and ListerThe early apothecariesOther healers: phrenologists, tooth-pullers, homeopaths and quacksAnesthetics and germ-free surgeryScientific medicine offers new hopeBack to basics of nutrition and exercise