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Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders

by William A. Alcott

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2To the Reader
  3. 3Chapter I — Educational Tendencies
  4. 4Chapter II — My First Medical Lesson
  5. 5Chapter III — The Electrical Machine
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Measles and Pouring Down Rum
  7. 7Chapter V — Lee’s Pills, and the Dropsy
  8. 8Chapter VI — The Cold Shower-Bath
  9. 9Chapter VII — My First Sickness Abroad
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Lesson From an Old Surgeon
  11. 11Chapter IX — Lee’s Windham Bilious Pills
  12. 12Chapter X — Dr. Solomon and His Patient
  13. 13Chapter XI — Physicking Off Fever
  14. 14Chapter XII — Manufacturing Chilblains
  15. 15Chapter XIII — How to Make Erysipelas
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Studying Medicine
  17. 17Chapter XV — Nature’s Own Eye Water
  18. 18Chapter XVI — The Viper Story
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Struck With Death
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Efficacy of Cold Spring Water
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Cheating the Physician
  22. 22Chapter XX — The Medicinal Effects of Story Telling
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Ossified Veins
  24. 24Chapter XXII — He’ll die in Thirty Six Hours
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — About to die of Consumption
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — My Journeymanship in Medicine
  27. 27Chapter XXV — My Temperance Pledge
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — Trials of a Young Physician
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — A Dosing and Drugging Family
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Poisoning With Lead
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Standing Patients
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Killing a Patient
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — A Sudden Cure
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — Gigantic Doses of Medicine
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — The Lambskin Disease
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — Milk Punch Fever
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — My First Case in Surgery
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — Emilia and the Love Cure
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Hezekiah and Delirium Tremens
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — My First Amputation
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — Milk, as a Remedy in Fevers
  42. 42Chapter XL — The Virtues of Pumpkin-Seed Tea
  43. 43Chapter XLI — Broken Limbs and Intemperance
  44. 44Chapter XLII — Dying From Mere Filthiness
  45. 45Chapter XLIII — Taking the Fever
  46. 46Chapter XLIV — Blessings of Cider and Cider Brandy
  47. 47Chapter XLV — The Indian Doctor
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — Dying of Old Age, at Fifty-Eight
  49. 49Chapter XLVII — Daughters Destroying Their Mother
  50. 50Chapter XLVIII — Poisoning With Stramonium
  51. 51Chapter XLIX — Curing Cancer
  52. 52Chapter L — Swelled Limbs
  53. 53Chapter LI — Sudden Changes in Old Age
  54. 54Chapter LII — An Opium Eater
  55. 55Chapter LIII — Coffee, and the Lame Knee
  56. 56Chapter LIV — The Opium Pill Box
  57. 57Chapter LV — Bleeding at the Lungs
  58. 58Chapter LVI — Butter Eaters
  59. 59Chapter LVII — Hot Houses and Consumption
  60. 60Chapter LVIII — Poisoning by a Painted Pail
  61. 61Chapter LIX — One Drop of Laudanum
  62. 62Chapter LX — Mrs. Kidder’s Cordial
  63. 63Chapter LXI — Almost Raising the Dead
  64. 64Chapter LXII — Female Health, and Insane Hospitals
  65. 65Chapter LXIII — A Giant Dyspeptic
  66. 66Chapter LXIV — Getting Into a Circle
  67. 67Chapter LXV — Poisoning With Maple Sugar
  68. 68Chapter LXVI — Physicking Off Measles
  69. 69Chapter LXVII — Tic Douloureux
  70. 70Chapter LXVIII — Cold Water in Fever
  71. 71Chapter LXIX — Cold-Taking and Consumption
  72. 72Chapter LXX — Freezing Out Disease
  73. 73Chapter LXXI — The Air-Cure
  74. 74Chapter LXXII — The Clergyman
  75. 75Chapter LXXIII — He Must Be Physicked, or Die
  76. 76Chapter LXXIV — Who Hath Woe? Or, The Sick Widow
  77. 77Chapter LXXV — The Penalty of Self-Indulgence
  78. 78Chapter LXXVI — Dr. Bolus and Morphine
  79. 79Chapter LXXVII — Bleeding and Blistering Omitted
  80. 80Chapter LXXVIII — Medical Virtues of Sleep
  81. 81Chapter LXXIX — Cure by Deep Breathing
  82. 82Chapter LXXX — Spirit-Doctoring
  83. 83Chapter LXXXI — Remarkable Cure of Epilepsy
  84. 84Chapter LXXXII — Scarlatina Cured by Letting Alone
  85. 85Chapter LXXXIII — Ignorance Not Always Bliss
  86. 86Chapter LXXXIV — Measles Without Snakeroot and Saffron
  87. 87Chapter LXXXV — The Consumptive Pair
  88. 88Chapter LXXXVI — How to Cure Cholera
  89. 89Chapter LXXXVII — Obstinacy and Suicide
  90. 90Chapter LXXXVIII — Health Hospitals
  91. 91Chapter LXXXIX — Destruction by Scrofula
  92. 92Chapter XC — Starving Out Disease
  93. 93Chapter XCI — Dieting on Mince Pie
  94. 94Chapter XCII — Giants in the Earth
  95. 95Chapter XCIII — The Green Mountain Patient
  96. 96Chapter XCIV — Cure of Poison From Lead
  97. 97Chapter XCV — Faith and Works
  98. 98Chapter XCVI — Works Without Faith
  99. 99Chapter XCVII — Diseases of Licentiousness
  100. 100Chapter XCVIII — Curious and Instructive Facts
  101. 101Chapter XCIX — Anti-Medical Testimony
  102. 102Chapter C — An Anti-Medical Premium
  103. 103Chapter CI — Concluding Remarks
  104. 104Chapter CII — A Last Chapter

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