Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life by Jacalyn Duffin

Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life

Jacalyn Duffin

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nonfiction autobiography biography health history
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A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (18...

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