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Diseases in the district of Maine 1772 to 1820 : the unpublished work of Jeremiah Barker, a rural physician in New England / Richard J. Kahn. [electronic resource]

By: Series: Oxford medicine onlinePublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190053284 (ebook) :
Contained works:
  • Barker, Jeremiah, 1752-1835. Works. Selections
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 610.974 23
LOC classification:
  • R128.7
Online resources: Summary: This previously unpublished primary source allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced two hundred years ago by a rural physician in New England through his case histories, correspondence, biographical sketches, and personal commentary. Throughout his fifty-year practice, beginning with a preceptorship in Hingham, Massachusetts, Jeremiah Barker documented his constant efforts to keep up with and contribute to the medical literature in a changing medical landscape, as practice and authority shifted from historical to scientific methods.
Holdings
Item type Home library Class number URL Status Date due Barcode
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Furness NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Lancaster NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This previously unpublished primary source allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced two hundred years ago by a rural physician in New England through his case histories, correspondence, biographical sketches, and personal commentary. Throughout his fifty-year practice, beginning with a preceptorship in Hingham, Massachusetts, Jeremiah Barker documented his constant efforts to keep up with and contribute to the medical literature in a changing medical landscape, as practice and authority shifted from historical to scientific methods.

Specialized.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 20, 2020).