Hugh Wynne

Hugh Wynne
Author: S. Weir Mitchell
Publisher: Ardent Media
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1897
Genre:
ISBN:

The Bookman

The Bookman
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1898
Genre: Book collecting
ISBN:

The Reader

The Reader
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1903
Genre: Literature
ISBN:

S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914

S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914
Author: Nancy Cervetti
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-08-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 027107387X

This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women’s rights, S. Weir Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers with phantom limbs and burning pain, and creation of the rest cure to treat hysteria and neurasthenia. Mitchell’s life was extraordinary—interesting in its own right and as a case study in the larger inquiry into nineteenth-century medicine and culture.