Research Catalog

Title

Calomel in America : mercurial panacea, war, song and ghosts / Richard M. Swiderski.

Author

Swiderski, Richard M.

Publication

Boca Raton, Fla. : BrownWalker Press, 2008.

Holdings

Details

Description

235 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Calomel > History > 18th century
• Calomel > History > 19th century
• History, 18th Century
• History, 19th Century
• Mercury > Therapeutic use > United States
• Mercury Compounds
• Mercury Compounds > adverse effects
• Mercury Compounds > history
• Mercury Compounds > therapeutic use
• Practice Patterns, Physicians'
• Practice Patterns, Physicians' > history
• United States
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Making calomel -- Panacea -- Epidemics -- "Go fetch the doctor" -- The calomel doctors -- Pill-makers -- Calomel and Dr. Cooke -- Military calomel -- Prophylaxis -- The calomel-morphine problem -- Calomel of the spirits.

ISBN

• 9781599424675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1599424673 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008030938