Defining Energy in Nineteenth-Century Native American Literature

AMERICAN ECONOhfIC GROWTH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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Defining the Medical Profession in Mid-Nineteenth Century Bristol

The movement for reform of medical practice which occupied the middle decades of the nineteenth century culminated in the Medical Registration Act of 1858. Its provisions were a disappointment to many reformers because, among other things, it did not allow automatic prosecution of unqualified practitioners. They could only be penalised if they assumed a medical title or passed themselves off as...

Guardians and angels. Parents and children in nineteenth-century literature

Medical America in the nineteenth century. Readings from the literature

American medicine was derivative in its origins. Beginning as an element of a culture brought from Europe by the first settlers, it was influenced by European sources and trends throughout much of its evolution. According to Dixon Ryan Fox, cultural transfers of this kind occur in four stages. First, a few educated in the mother country emigrate to the new settlement; then, the colonial youth a...

Two nineteenth century surgeons.

the biggest problem in guerilla warfare and at one time we were carrying so many wounded on stretchers, with two men carrying, that there were few left to fight. Food was very scarce; we seemed to live on boiled billy goat-which tastes as the billy goat smells-and a rock hard maize bread "chicken mash," equally unpalatable. Vegetables were never seen. Later we could get sheep milk yogurt and in...