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Medicine and the Mormons: An Introduction to the History of Latter Day Saint Health Care
Medicine and the Mormons is a classic book for all who are interested in the formidable health problems and challenges of the American frontier and the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It reveals much about the health conditions and attitudes Mormon pioneers carried west.
This captivating history begins in a time when the “old school” of American medicine over-emphasized bloodletting and purging, usually by means of massive doses of calomel, and use of “mineral” medications such as arsenic and strychnine, methods that eased many a person to a premature death. Is it any wonder that Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and many others on the American frontier preferred faith healing and the botanic medicine of Samuel Thomson?
This captivating history begins in a time when the “old school” of American medicine over-emphasized bloodletting and purging, usually by means of massive doses of calomel, and use of “mineral” medications such as arsenic and strychnine, methods that eased many a person to a premature death. Is it any wonder that Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and many others on the American frontier preferred faith healing and the botanic medicine of Samuel Thomson?
231 pages, ebook
First published September 15, 2010
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