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Patrician looking but not patrician born, Musmanno was a self-made man memorable in his appearance and congenial to the times until his intentions and aspirations ran afoul of the circumstances. From his journals we see a man of extreme contradictions who sometimes exercised troubling and even controlling relationships over people and events.

Swedenborg's Principles of Usefulness highlights Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) widespread influence on an impressive host of historical figures, from poets and artists to philosophers and statesmen. His idea that our purpose in life is both to love others and to find practical ways to improve their lives led many to take on social reforms that vitalized the American landscape during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Author John ...

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Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor”. Thomson offerd patients inexpensive and gentle medicines from their own fields and gardens. Told here for the first time, The People's Doctor covers seventy years of Thomson's practice.

John S. Haller presents a series of essays on key figures in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries connected by their fascination with the philosopher, scientist, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Highlighted figures include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Fourier, and D. T. Suzuki.

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In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin's 'Origin Of Species' and the discovery of Gregor Mendel's experiments in genetics, John S. Haller, Jr. shows the relationship between scientific 'conviction' and public policy. He focuses on the numerous liberally educated American scientists who were caught up in the triumph of evolutionary ideas and who sought to apply those ideas to comparative morality, ...

Traces the rise of lay practitioners in shaping homeopathy as a healing system and its relationship to other forms of complementary and alternative medicine in an age when conventional biomedicine remains the dominant form. Representing the most current and up-to-date history of American homeopathy, readers will benefit from John S. Haller Jr.'s comprehensive explanation of complementary medicine within the American social, scientific, religio...

Prev. ed.: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c1992, under title Farmcarts to Fords: a history of the military ambulance, 1790-1925.

This is a modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine. Organised in 1845, the school was to exist for ninety-four years before closing in 1939, when they found themselves in the backwaters of modern medicine. Unable to break away from their botanic bias and ill-equipped to support the implications of germ theory, the financial costs of salaried faculty and staff, and the research implications of laboratory science, the...

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Men and women in late nineteenth-century America, " write John S. Haller and Robin M. Haller, "faced a bewildering and conflicting array of roles forced on them by a newly industrialized society." Nowhere were these roles more sharply drawn than in the area of sexuality. Growing numbers of Victorians found themselves unable to confide in husbands, wives, or relatives on personal matters. Increasingly, they turned to advice columns in newspaper...

Complementary and alternative healing concepts encompass a wide range of practices that share a common ground: the belief that our physical well-being is inextricably linked to an unseen world beyond our physical senses. Our view of that world can be traced to two key thinkers: Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Anton Mesmer. Who were these men, and what shaped their thought? How did their ideas capture the public imagination? How did they speak to ...