| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Doctor Franklin's Medicine. By Stanley Finger. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xiv, 379 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8122-3913-X.)
Benjamin Franklin has generated a great deal of scholarly attention of late, perhaps second only to Thomas Jefferson. Stanley Finger has made another addition to that extensive literature, with a unique twist: a focus on Franklin's contributions to medicine and public health in the context of international scientific exchange.	1
Finger divides Franklin's contributions into four categories: preventive medicine (or hygiene), therapies for specific illnesses, prosthetic devices (such as Franklin's famous bifocals), and institutions (such as the Pennsylvania Hospital). Those contributions were made over the course of Franklin's life and often were associated with Franklin's residence in different nations: America, Great Britain, and France. For instance, Finger argues that Franklin was inspired to help create an American medical school after his time in Edinburgh, Scotland, home of one of the preeminent medical colleges of the eighteenth century.	. . .

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