| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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Book Review

Bleed, Blister, and Purge: A History of Medicine on the American Frontier. By Volney Steele, M.D. (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing, 2005. xxiii + 365 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $15.00, paper.)

A retired pathologist, Volney Steele provides readers abundant glimpses of human adventures with diseases and health care practices in the states and territories of America's western frontier from the days of Indian remedies to the years of the mid-twentieth century. Steele reviewed a host of primary and secondary sources in search of the principal features of sickness and care experienced by countless miners, settlers, cowboys, prostitutes, trappers, and explorers. Steele's descriptions of these experiences are the major strength of this lengthy book. One hundred and two illustrations are another major strength. Their variety and visual clarity are superb.

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