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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Lessons from the history of medical delusions |
| Reference | 105659.D |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Collection | Rosenberg |
| Date | 1850 |
| Author | Hooker, Worthington |
| Publisher / Printer / Lithographer | Baker & Scribner |
| Place of Creation | New York |
| Description | Hooker was disturbed by the lack of respect shown to the regular medical profession by the American public and by the rise of alternative therapeutic systems. This is one of several books Hooker wrote with the intention of exposing the false premises upon which the public condemned allopathic medicine while embracing the supposed merits of its pseudo-scientific alternatives. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Education and Research; Homeopathy |
| Keywords | medicine, dysentery, blood, water, physician, pneumonia, disease |
| Parts of the Body | digestive organs, lungs |
| Additional Information | Hooker received his medical degree from Harvard in 1829 and practiced in Norwich, Connecticut for more than twenty years before his appointment as professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Yale in 1852. Concerned about the level of popular scientific education, Hooker wrote a series of books intended to explain the natural sciences to the lay and school-age audiences. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |