Prisoners' Eyes: Treatments for Ophthalmic Disease Among Convict Populations During the 1830s and 1840s
In the 1820s medical practitioners, bound by practices consistent with depletive therapies of the antiphlogistic paradigm, favoured bleeding, blistering, and purging to treat inflammatory complaints of the eye. Advances in therapeutics during the 1830s and 40s led to a digression from these depletiv...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Health and History. - Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 1998. - 19(2017), 2, Seite 41-59 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
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2017
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Health and History |
| Schlagworte: | Convicts transportation ophthalmia prison health nineteenth-century therapeutics Health sciences Social sciences Biological sciences Physical sciences Law |
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