Revolutionary Medicine-Jeanne E Abrams torrent

Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health


By Jeanne E. Abrams

Published by NYU Press in 2013

English, 314 pages


Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the founding fathers and their families as it did slaves, merchants, immigrants, and everyone else in North America. As both victims of illness and national leaders, the Founders occupied a unique position regarding the development of public health in America