| From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health Contributor(s): Lee, R. (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0275994678 ISBN-13: 9780275994679 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: Without Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health, diseases festering in water sources, food, and the common towel at the turn of the 20th century would have caused thousands of deaths in the United States and beyond. Crumbine and his associates paved the way to better treatment of tuberculosis and other common diseases. This well-written account leads the reader down a path of crucial medical advancements. Samuel J. Crumbine was a medical educator without peer, who used his department of health to disseminate the latest developments he and others throughout the world were achieving in public health. He found it necessary to propagandize a skeptical and sometimes hostile public to accept the germ theory, the idea that invisible microbes were making them ill and that they should clean up their environment and their food and water sources. He had to convince the public to rely on modern medicine, not snake oil and other miracle cures for a healthy living. R. Alton Lee's historical account might offer insight in today's threat of Bird Flu and other recent medical threats for any reader. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006038812 |
| Series: Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.49" W x 9.58" (1.19 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Kansas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Without Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health, diseases festering in water sources, food and the common towel would have caused thousands of deaths in the United States. Crumbine and his associates paved the way to better treatment of tuberculosis. This well-written account leads the reader down a path of crucial medical advancements. Samuel J. Crumbine was a medical educator without peer, who used his department of health to disseminate the latest developments he and others throughout the world were achieving in public health. He found it necessary to propagandize a skeptical and sometimes hostile public to accept the germ theory, the idea that invisible microbes were making them ill and that they should clean up their environment and their food and water sources. He had to convince the public to rely on modern medicine, not snake oil and other miracle cures for a healthy living. R. Alton Lee's historical account might offer insight in today's threat of Bird Flu and other recent medical threats for any reader. |