Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1446

JACOB BIGELOW (1787-1879) A discourse on self-limited diseases. N. Hale 1835 48 pp. 22.3 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1443

This work was said by Oliver Wendell Holmes to have exerted more influence on medical practice in the United States than any other work that had been published in this country. Written as a reaction against the excessive use of pharmaceuticals by early nineteenth-century physicians, it had a profound and immediate effect on the profession.

Cited references: Cushing B387; Garrison-Morton 2212; Osler 2034; Wellcome II, p. 166

Gift of John Martin, M.D.