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Impressive, Authoritative, and Essential,
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This review is from: Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine (Paperback)
I am a retired physician, and when I read David McCullough's recent book "The Greater Journey", I became fascinated with medicine in Paris around 1830. I have now read a dozen books related to this topic (histories, biographies, diaries, contemporary medical books, etc.) Fortunately I saved Warner's "Against the Spirit of System" for last. This book has tied together everything that I had already read and has added even more. Warner is an extremely thoughtful and thorough historian. He writes very well. His use of original sources is masterful. He explains his approach as he goes along. This book is clearly the best book on the topic. It is also a wonderful example of historical method at its best.
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Needed this out-of-the-way book because it has a section on Joseph Shelton Watson, 1801 grad of William and Mary. He was the first Virginian to create and send aloft a hot-air balloon!!!!!
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Against the Spirit of System by John Harley Warner (Hardcover - December 22, 1997)
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