Description: Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis and Other Army Posts From a headless burial to cocaine toothache drops, the true stories hidden in the Wild West's medical records are a match for its tallest tales.In the 19th century, when dying young was a fact of life, a routine bout of diarrhea could be fatal. No one had heard of viruses or bacteria, but they killed more soldiers on the frontier than hostile raiding parties. Physicians dispensed whiskey for TB, mercury for VD and arsenic for indigestion. Baseball injuries were considered to be in the line of duty and twice resulted in amputations at Fort Davis. Donna Smith explains how an industrious laundress could earn more than a private, a female army surgeon won the Medal of Honor and a garrison illegally hung its bartender.
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MPN: 9781467152464
BOOK TITLE: Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis and Other Army Posts
Item Length: 9in
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Publication Name: Frontier Medicine AT Fort Davis and OTHER Army Posts : True Stories of Unglamorous Maladies
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
