Frontier Medicine(English, Paperback, Dary David)

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Frontier Medicine(English, Paperback, Dary David) is written by Dary David and published by Random House USA Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0307455424 (ISBN 10) and 9780307455420 (ISBN 13).

In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry. Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.