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    Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge: The Dirty Secrets Behind Early American Medicine
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    Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge: The Dirty Secrets Behind Early American Medicine

    By J. Marin Younker

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    Riots over the medical use of cadavers, public access to institutions for the insane, and full-blown surgeries without the aid of anesthetics or painkillers. Welcome to the middle ages of American medicine.
    Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge exposes the extraordinary practices and major players of American medical history, from America's colonial era to the late 1800s. It's hard to believe that today's cutting-edge medicine originated from such crude beginnings, but this book reminds us to be grateful for today's medical care, while also raising the question: what current medical practices will be the horrors of tomorrow?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781942186335
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    Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge: The Dirty Secrets Behind Early American Medicine
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    J. Marin Younker

    J. Marin Younker worked as a public librarian for thirteen years, book-talking in the schools, leading book groups, talking to teens, and managing teen collections. She earned a degree in History from Western Washington University, and now lives in the Seattle area with her family and animal menagerie.

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    • 5/5
      Being a nurse, I found Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge: The Dirty Secrets Behind Early American Medicine by J. Marin Younker fascinating! I knew some of the things that is brought up in here because I love history but there was so much I also did learn from this amazing book. This book covers medicine in the New World, in the Civil War -chop em up fast and the strange anesthesia or lack there of they used, piss tasting, ear wax nibbling to diagnosing, grave robbing, leech therapy (I did work in a hospital 30 yrs ago that did use this for microsurgery but not for what they were using leeches in the book for), blistering the patient, purging and diarrhea, and bleeding the patient. Giving the patient mercury, yep, I said mercury. Surgery as a theater event, just sell tickets. The book goes into quacks and the "cures" and other interesting aspects of medicine. I found I like Barnum, from Barnum Circus, even less than I did before after reading this and I know you will too when you read his entry. A very interesting book! Not one page is boring!
    • 4/5
      BLEED, BLISTER, PUKE, AND PURGE by J. Marin Younker tells the stories behind early American medicine.From the 1600s to the 1800s, Younker examines the history of medicine in early American history. Of particular note is the section on the Civil War. This well-researched work of nonfiction effectively weaves in primary source documents including newspaper articles and other materials.Librarians will find this book popular with students doing reports related to early medicine. Many young people enjoy the macabre. Work with teachers to promote both your fiction and nonfiction works related to medicine to engage history students.Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Book Group on October 25, 2016. ARC courtesy of the publisher.