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