Mystic Healers & Medicine Shows
Author | : Gene Fowler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1997 |
ISBN-10 | : IND:30000054076140 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Download or read book Mystic Healers & Medicine Shows written by Gene Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the histories of the West are obsessed with the shoot-em-ups. But what about the patch-em-ups? Who had to deal with all that famous carnage? With all the bloodletting depicted by pop culture historians, it almost seems a miracle anyone survived to settle the West. Prior to World War II regular, or allopathic, physicians trained in mainstream medicine were often outnumbered by alternative practitioners--folk curers, herbalists, faith healers, homeopaths, patent medicine promoters, and medicine showmen. Mystic Healers and Medicine Shows profiles many of the most significant of these healers as well as a few other colorful regular doctors.