Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South

by Thomas Helling MD

Overview

An examination of southern healthcare history from colonial days through the Civil War and Reconstruction

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496854360
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	10/23/2024
Edition description:	Hardback
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Thomas Helling, MD, is professor of surgery at University of Mississippi Medical Center and School of Medicine and headed the Division of General Surgery from 2009 to 2023. He is author of The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine; The Agony of Heroes: Medical Care for America's Besieged Legions from Bataan to Khe Sanh; and Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War: Doctors and Damage Control for American Wounded, 1941-1945.