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14. From Music Therapy to the Music of Madness

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Preface xi
  4. INTRODUCTION Benjamin Franklin’s Enlightened Medicine 1
  5. PART I. THE COLONIST AND MEDICINE
  6. 1. Poor Richard’s Medicine 19
  7. 2. In Praise of Exercise 37
  8. 3. The Smallpox Wars 49
  9. 4. The Citizen and the Hospital 66
  10. 5. Electricity and the Palsies 80
  11. 6. Electricity, Mental Disorders, and a Modest Proposal 102
  12. PART II. MEDICINE IN GREAT BRITAIN
  13. 7. Friends and Medical Connections 117
  14. 8. Scotland and the First American Medical School 133
  15. 9. Colds, the Weather, and the Invisible World 151
  16. 10. Fresh Air and Good Health 165
  17. 11. The Perils of Lead 181
  18. PART III. LE DOCTEUR IN FRANCE
  19. 12. French Medicine and Health Imperatives 199
  20. 13. The Folly of Mesmerism 219
  21. 14. From Music Therapy to the Music of Madness 235
  22. PART IV. OLD AGE, ILLNESSES, AND THE DOCTOR’S DEATH
  23. 15. Bifocals and the Aging Inventor 253
  24. 16. Skin and “Scurf ” 267
  25. 17. The Gout as Your Friend? 276
  26. 18. A Debilitating Stone 294
  27. 19. The Limits of Medicine 309
  28. Epilogue: Franklin’s Medical Legacy 324
  29. Notes 331
  30. Index 365
Doctor Franklin's Medicine
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https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201918.235

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Preface xi
  4. INTRODUCTION Benjamin Franklin’s Enlightened Medicine 1
  5. PART I. THE COLONIST AND MEDICINE
  6. 1. Poor Richard’s Medicine 19
  7. 2. In Praise of Exercise 37
  8. 3. The Smallpox Wars 49
  9. 4. The Citizen and the Hospital 66
  10. 5. Electricity and the Palsies 80
  11. 6. Electricity, Mental Disorders, and a Modest Proposal 102
  12. PART II. MEDICINE IN GREAT BRITAIN
  13. 7. Friends and Medical Connections 117
  14. 8. Scotland and the First American Medical School 133
  15. 9. Colds, the Weather, and the Invisible World 151
  16. 10. Fresh Air and Good Health 165
  17. 11. The Perils of Lead 181
  18. PART III. LE DOCTEUR IN FRANCE
  19. 12. French Medicine and Health Imperatives 199
  20. 13. The Folly of Mesmerism 219
  21. 14. From Music Therapy to the Music of Madness 235
  22. PART IV. OLD AGE, ILLNESSES, AND THE DOCTOR’S DEATH
  23. 15. Bifocals and the Aging Inventor 253
  24. 16. Skin and “Scurf ” 267
  25. 17. The Gout as Your Friend? 276
  26. 18. A Debilitating Stone 294
  27. 19. The Limits of Medicine 309
  28. Epilogue: Franklin’s Medical Legacy 324
  29. Notes 331
  30. Index 365
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