Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911

A history of this high-brow school of medicine, Physio-Medicalism. They promoted the belief that the body has a ""vital force"" that can be used to heal and substituted botanical medicines for allopathy's mineral drugs. The author traces their establishment and their descent into obscurity.

• | Author: Haller Jr, John S
• | Publisher: Kent State University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 08, 1997
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780873385770
• | ISBN-10: 0873385772