Peruse Forty Years In The Wilderness Of Pills And Powders, Or, The Cogitations And Confessions Of An Aged Physician Narrated By William A. Alcott In Physical Edition

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We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book, This is a memoir by William Alcott, a physician who practiced in the first half of thes, in which he confesses that not only did the learned doctors of his time not have a clue what they were doing, they inflicted much actual harm and killed plenty of their patients.
He also records his endless fights with quacks who took advantage of the weakminded and gullible, It's an interesting piece of writing about a disgraceful era in the history of medicine,

The author was a second cousin and family friend of Amos Bronson Alcott, the father of Louisa May Alcott.
William Alcott wrote over a hundred

books about various subjects, and he was a determined promoter of modern advances in everyday living.


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sitelink org/details/fortyyear William Andrus Alcott also known as: William Alexander Alcott,, was one of the most prolific authors in early American history.
He wrote frequently on the topics of education and health, Inhe wrote a letter to the editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal titled The Graham System and signed it M.
D. The cause of greatest interest in Alcott throughout his life was vegetarianism, Inhe wrote three long letters on vegetarianism to the editor of the New York Tribune at the request of the editor.
Alcott wrote The Physiology of Marriage in, He deplored free courtship manners, He specifically deplored conversation which is too excitable, presence of exciting books, unnecessary heat, and many other court William Andrus Alcott also known as: William Alexander Alcott,, was one of the most prolific authors in early American history.
He wrote frequently on the topics of education and health, Inhe wrote a letter to the editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal titled 'The Graham System' and signed it 'M.
D. 'The cause of greatest interest in Alcott throughout his life was vegetarianism, Inhe wrote three long letters on vegetarianism to the editor of the New York Tribune at the request of the editor.
Alcott wrote The Physiology of Marriage in, He deplored free courtship manners, He specifically deplored 'conversation which is too excitable', 'presence of exciting books', 'unnecessary heat', and many other courtship practices prevalent inth century America but steadily going out of fashion by.
He warned young people of the dangers of courtship, He is criticized by modern day feminists for his 'rigidity', Alcott was a founding member inand the first president of the American Vegetarian Society, He was also the author of 'The Vegetable Diet As Sanctioned by Medical Men and By Experience in All Ages'.
He also founded The American Physiological Society in, the world's first physiological society, He died of a lung infection and is buried in Newton Cemetary, He worked until the day before he died, sitelink.