Pious traders in medicine : a German pharmaceutical network in eighteenth-century North America / Renate Wilson.

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2000], ©2000.

xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-250) and index.

European philanthropy, Pietist medicine, and the pharmaceutical trade. The Francke Orphanage Foundations at Halle : the fruit of religious reform -- Pietist medicine and medical education : a radical heritage tempered -- The traffic in Halle Orphanage medications. German medicine in North America, 1730-1810. German patients and German practitioners in a new world -- The traffic in Halle Orphanage medications : building a transatlantic exchange -- The North American consumer : German lay preferences and choices -- The learned practitioner and the learned public -- Epilogue : Pietist medicine and Pietist charity in the New Republic.