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Frontier Fever: The Scary, Superstitious- And Sometimes Sensible- Medicine of the Pioneers
by VAN STEENWYK, Elizabeth
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0802784038
- ISBN 13
- 9780802784032
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Walker and Company, 1995. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 144 pages. 8vo, black boards, dust wrapper. Page edges foxed, else a very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> In this new twist on American frontier life. Elizabeth Van Steenwyk shows us how the pioneers who settled the vast American West managed to survive. Whether using chicken blood to treat appendicitis, blood letting to relieve fever, or firing guns into the air to stop yellow fever epidemics, pioneers and their doctors would try anything for their health.<br/> <br/>
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- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 306408
- Title
- Frontier Fever: The Scary, Superstitious- And Sometimes Sensible- Medicine of the Pioneers
- Author
- VAN STEENWYK, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0802784038
- ISBN 13
- 9780802784032
- Publisher
- Walker and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
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