S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914 : : Philadelphia's Literary Physician / / Nancy Cervetti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Cervetti, Nancy,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 18 illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on the Text --; Introduction --; 1. Family Matters --; 2. Letters Home --; 3. The Young Physiologist --; 4. War's Awful Harvest --; 5. Wind and Tide --; 6. Pandora's Box --; 7. The Apple or the Rose --; 8. The Literary Physician --; 9. Combat Zones --; 10. Great Doctor, Poet, and Salmon Killer --; 11. Winter's Sorrow --; 12. The New Century --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780271060040; 9783110745269
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271060040?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nancy Cervetti.

This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women's rights, S. Weir Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers with phantom limbs and burning pain, and creation of the rest cure to treat hysteria and neurasthenia. Mitchell's life was extraordinary-interesting in its own right and as a case study in the larger inquiry into nineteenth-century medicine and culture.