John S. Haller Jr. is a professor of history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale whose books include Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939 and The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860. Barbara Mason is the curator of the Pearson Museum at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, where she is also a member of the Department of Medical Humanities.
"Readers will find pleasure in reading Autobiography of Silas Thompson Trowbridge M.D. The author provides a fascinating look at the practice of medicine as well as the obvious interplay of medicine and politics in the years before, during, and after the Civil War."--John S. Haller Jr. and Barbara Mason, from the Introduction
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