How To Treat The Sick Without Medicine

Jackson, James C.. How to Treat the Sick Without Medicine. Dansville, NY USA: Austin, Jackson & Co., 1913.
From the publishers who gave us: How to Rear Beautiful Children; Dancing: Its Evils and Its Benefits; and The Curse Lifted or Maternity Made Easy. The author was Physician-in-Chief of Our Home on the Hillside (a very large establishment, based on the photograph). Contents include treating everything from Measles and Typhoid to Insanity and Blindness with one or more of the following: Air, Water, Food, Time for Taking Baths, Sunlight, Dress, Exercise, Sleep and Its Recuperations, The Sick Chamber and Its Surroundings. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and publishers imprint, border decorations, 543 pages including publisher's advertisements. The book is in fair condition with considerable surface rubbing and soil, worn and chipped joints, frayed spine ends and other edge wear, tear along spine base, but internally a bit better with sound text block, hinges cracked but secure, name on reverse of author's frontis portrait, frontis spread contains heavy foxing, otherwise clean, age-toned pages with no markings. Reading copy..

Tenth Edition, H Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall, Fair.

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Spongberg, Mary: FEMINIZING VENEREAL DISEASE. The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth- Century Medical Discourse, New York New York University Press 1997

x+231pp., notes, index. Despite the efforts of doctors to treat medicine as pure science, medical knowledge was greatly influenced by cultural assumptions and social and moral codes. Following the eighteenth-century discovery that women could suffer from venereal disease without showing any signs of it, prostitutes became the central focus of a major panic about morals and public health. The body of the prostitute became almost synonymous with venereal disease as doctors drew up traits of "abnormal" women; eugenic theories prevailed as well. FEMINIZING VENEREAL DISEASE traces the medicalization of the prostitute as a symbolic source of social disease - the ordinary sick body - of Victorian England. In doing so it presents a foreceful argument about gendering in nineteenth-century medicine, drawing out the inter-relationship between concepts of femininity, public health and the state. A fascinating example of how history can enlighten contemporary discourse, the book concludes with a compelling discussion of Victorian notions of the body on current discussions of HIV / AIDS.

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