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This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women's rights, S. Weir Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers with phantom limbs and burning pain, and creation of the rest cure to treat hysteria and neurasthenia. Mitchell's life was extraordinary—interesting in its own right and as a case study in the larger inquiry into nineteenth-century medicine and culture.
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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Notes to Introduction
- Chapter 1: Family Matters
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: Letters Home
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: The Young Physiologist
- Ntes to Chapter 3
- Chapter 4: War’s Awful Harvest
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: Wind and Tide
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: Pandora’s Box
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Figure Section
- Chapter 7: The Apple or the Rose
- Notes to Chapter 7
- Chapter 8: The Literary Physician
- Notes to Chapter 8
- Chapter 9: Combat Zones
- Notes to Chapter 9
- Chapter 10: Great Doctor, Poet, and Salmon Killer
- Notes to Chapter 10
- Chapter 11: Winter’s Sorrow
- Notes to Chapter 11
- Chapter 12: The New Century
- Notes to Chapter 12
- Epilogue
- Notes to Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index