Publisher:
Montana State University Press and The Montana Medical Association
Published:
1962
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14936184212
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Seller's Description:
First edition. xxi, [1], 564pp. Illustrated with 49 portraits and plates, map endpapers. Notes, appendices, bibliography and index. Red and white cloth. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket. A thorough history of medicine in Montana, from the native Americans and their medical practices through 1890. Chapters include, Montana Indians and Their Medical Practices; Doctors Lewis and Clark; The Fur Traders and Their Health; Jesuit Missionaries as Doctors; Health of the Gold Rush; the Yellowstone Valley; and more. The author attempts a biographical sketches of every physician who came to practice in Montana up to 1890, by county and region. Excellent source book.