John K Crellin
Biographic Data
| ID | 228675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John K Crellin |
| GIVEN NAMES | John K |
| FAMILY NAME | Crellin |
| SIGNATURE | CRELLIN J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke Medical Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia (review)
Reviewed by: Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia J. K. Crellin Anthony Cavender . Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xviii + 266 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth, 0-8078-2824-6), $19.95 (paperbound, 0-8078-5493-X). This new contribution to Appalachian studies is, in large part, a "historical construction of the folk medical beliefs and practices common in Southern Appalachia from the late nineteent…
Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA (review)
Reviewed by: Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA J. K. Crellin Graham A. J. Ayliffe and Mary P. English. Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 274 pp. Ill. $95.00 (cloth, 0-521-81935-0), $38.00 (paperbound, 0-521-53178-0). In starting with theories of contagion/infection in the Middle Ages and ending with present-day issues over hospital infection, Graham Aycliffe and Mary English…
American Medical Botany (Boston, 1817-1820) (review)
Reviewed by: American Medical Botany (Boston, 1817-1820) J. K. Crellin Jacob Bigelow . American Medical Botany (Boston, 1817-1820). Oakland, Calif.: Octavo, 2004. CD-ROM. $30.00 (1-891788-23-X). Just what can be said in usefully reviewing a reprint, in this case a CD-ROM? I ask and respond to four questions: 1. Is it worth reissuing? Yes. Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany is accepted as a "classic," in large part through its promotion of na…
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick (review)
Strictly, the Sephardim people are Jews whose lineage extends back to those exiled from Spain in the fifteenth century. Welcomed into the Ottoman empire—covering Asia Minor, the Balkans, and the Dodecanese Islands—their descendants have since spread further afield. Through the memories of informants in many communities within the former Ottoman Empire, as well as in Israel and the United States, Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women looks at asp…
Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 (review)
This volume is compiled from thirteen manuscript collections (mostly commonplace books) and from a scatter of other sources that include "William Buchan's Domestic Medicine, and John Wesley's Primitive Physick . . . John Quincy's English Dispensatory, the Edinburgh New Dispensatory, Benjamin Smith Barton's and William Cullen's materia medicas, and Culpeper's herbal" (p. 18). The account, mostly on treatments, is arranged according to general ther…
A Matter of Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County, 1830-1995 (review)
Reviewed by: A Matter of Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County, 1830–1995 John K. Crellin Lucinda McCray Beier. A Matter of Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County, 1830–1995. Bloomington, Ill.: McLean County Historical Society, 1996. viii + 281 pp. Ill. $15.00 (paperbound). Lucinda Beier argues that “the experience of McLean County [Illinois] residents during the past 160 years has illustrated nation…
Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine
A Controlled Comparison of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The present study had two objectives: 1) to determine the characteristics that differentiated subjects with multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), chemical sensitivities (CS), and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); and 2) to evaluate the psychiatric and neuropsychological complaints of these groups relative to normal controls. A cross-sectional comparison was made of the following groups matched for age, sex, and education: 1) patients whose sensiti…
Home Medicine: The Newfoundland Experience
Internal Antisepsis or the Dawn of Chemotherapy
All members [of the Antiseptic Club] had to bathe daily in antiseptic solutions. Preference was accorded to carbolic acid, although the selection of the antiseptic was left to the discretion of the bather, provided he bathed. The body was afterward dried by sterilized towels. Before immersion in the bath the physician was compelled to remain in a steam sterilizer for two or more hours, to insure absolute destruction of the germs and to avoid cont…
Spanish Medicine before the Eighteenth Century
Spanish Medicine before the Eighteenth Century Get access CHARLES E. ROSENBERG, ed. Healing and History: Essays for George Rosen. New York, Science History Publications, 1979. viii, 263 pp. $22.75, $19.00 prepaid. JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT Assistant Professor History of Medicine Department, University of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of t…
Manuscripts of Benjamin Waterhouse at Duke
Manuscripts of Benjamin Waterhouse at Duke Get access J. K. CRELLIN J. K. CRELLIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, July 1979, Pages 356–358, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXIV.3.356 Published: 01 July 1979
The wellcome materia medica collection and herbarium as research aids
Internal Antisepsis or the Dawn of Chemotherapy
All members [of the Antiseptic Club] had to bathe daily in antiseptic solutions. Preference was accorded to carbolic acid, although the selection of the antiseptic was left to the discretion of the bather, provided he bathed. The body was afterward dried by sterilized towels. Before immersion in the bath the physician was compelled to remain in a steam sterilizer for two or more hours, to insure absolute destruction of the germs and to avoid cont…
The wellcome materia medica collection and herbarium as research aids
Manuscripts of Benjamin Waterhouse at Duke
Manuscripts of Benjamin Waterhouse at Duke Get access J. K. CRELLIN J. K. CRELLIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, July 1979, Pages 356–358, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXIV.3.356 Published: 01 July 1979
Spanish Medicine before the Eighteenth Century
Spanish Medicine before the Eighteenth Century Get access CHARLES E. ROSENBERG, ed. Healing and History: Essays for George Rosen. New York, Science History Publications, 1979. viii, 263 pp. $22.75, $19.00 prepaid. JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT Assistant Professor History of Medicine Department, University of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of t…
Internal Antisepsis or the Dawn of Chemotherapy
All members [of the Antiseptic Club] had to bathe daily in antiseptic solutions. Preference was accorded to carbolic acid, although the selection of the antiseptic was left to the discretion of the bather, provided he bathed. The body was afterward dried by sterilized towels. Before immersion in the bath the physician was compelled to remain in a steam sterilizer for two or more hours, to insure absolute destruction of the germs and to avoid cont…
Home Medicine: The Newfoundland Experience
A Controlled Comparison of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The present study had two objectives: 1) to determine the characteristics that differentiated subjects with multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), chemical sensitivities (CS), and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); and 2) to evaluate the psychiatric and neuropsychological complaints of these groups relative to normal controls. A cross-sectional comparison was made of the following groups matched for age, sex, and education: 1) patients whose sensiti…
A Matter of Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County, 1830-1995 (review)
Reviewed by: A Matter of Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County, 1830–1995 John K. Crellin Lucinda McCray Beier. A Matter of Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County, 1830–1995. Bloomington, Ill.: McLean County Historical Society, 1996. viii + 281 pp. Ill. $15.00 (paperbound). Lucinda Beier argues that “the experience of McLean County [Illinois] residents during the past 160 years has illustrated nation…
Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine
Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 (review)
This volume is compiled from thirteen manuscript collections (mostly commonplace books) and from a scatter of other sources that include "William Buchan's Domestic Medicine, and John Wesley's Primitive Physick . . . John Quincy's English Dispensatory, the Edinburgh New Dispensatory, Benjamin Smith Barton's and William Cullen's materia medicas, and Culpeper's herbal" (p. 18). The account, mostly on treatments, is arranged according to general ther…
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick (review)
Strictly, the Sephardim people are Jews whose lineage extends back to those exiled from Spain in the fifteenth century. Welcomed into the Ottoman empire—covering Asia Minor, the Balkans, and the Dodecanese Islands—their descendants have since spread further afield. Through the memories of informants in many communities within the former Ottoman Empire, as well as in Israel and the United States, Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women looks at asp…
Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia (review)
Reviewed by: Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia J. K. Crellin Anthony Cavender . Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xviii + 266 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth, 0-8078-2824-6), $19.95 (paperbound, 0-8078-5493-X). This new contribution to Appalachian studies is, in large part, a "historical construction of the folk medical beliefs and practices common in Southern Appalachia from the late nineteent…
Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA (review)
Reviewed by: Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA J. K. Crellin Graham A. J. Ayliffe and Mary P. English. Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 274 pp. Ill. $95.00 (cloth, 0-521-81935-0), $38.00 (paperbound, 0-521-53178-0). In starting with theories of contagion/infection in the Middle Ages and ending with present-day issues over hospital infection, Graham Aycliffe and Mary English…
American Medical Botany (Boston, 1817-1820) (review)
Reviewed by: American Medical Botany (Boston, 1817-1820) J. K. Crellin Jacob Bigelow . American Medical Botany (Boston, 1817-1820). Oakland, Calif.: Octavo, 2004. CD-ROM. $30.00 (1-891788-23-X). Just what can be said in usefully reviewing a reprint, in this case a CD-ROM? I ask and respond to four questions: 1. Is it worth reissuing? Yes. Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany is accepted as a "classic," in large part through its promotion of na…
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