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Pious traders in medicine : a German pharmaceutical network in eighteenth-century North America
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- Creator
- Renate Wilson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780271020525, 0271020520
- OCLC
- ocm43296759
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-250) and index.
- European philanthropy, Pietist medicine, and the pharmaceutical trade. The Francke Orphanage Foundations at Halle : the fruit of religious reform -- Pietist medicine and medical education : a radical heritage tempered -- The traffic in Halle Orphanage medications. German medicine in North America, 1730-1810. German patients and German practitioners in a new world -- The traffic in Halle Orphanage medications : building a transatlantic exchange -- The North American consumer : German lay preferences and choices -- The learned practitioner and the learned public -- Epilogue : Pietist medicine and Pietist charity in the New Republic
Subjects
- Waisenhaus (Halle an der Saale, Germany)
- Medicine -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Medicine -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
- Pietists -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Pietists -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
- Pharmacy -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Missionaries, Medical -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- History, 18th Century -- United States.
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- History, 18th Century -- Germany.
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- Pharmacy -- history -- United States.
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- Religious Missions -- history -- United States.
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- Religion and Medicine.
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- Drug Utilization -- history -- United States.
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