Edward Hooker Dewey: 2 books

This volume contains four works that were generally considered reliable when they were published, but would would be considered wrong and even dangerous by a modern reader.   The complete works included herein are: “The First Book in Physiology and Hygiene” and “Plain...

This volume is a history, or a story, of an evolution in the professional care of the sick. It begins in inexperience and in a haze of medical superstition, and ends with a faith that Nature is the all in all in the cure of disease. The hygiene unfolded is both original and revolutionary: its practicality...