Langstaff
A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life

Jacalyn Duffin (Author)

9780802074140

Paperback / softback, published 29 October 1993

416 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.604 kg

A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).