They Did No Harm - Boles, James M
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In the 1800s medicine was primitive. Physicians often were untrained, and licensing was not yet organized. Many died because of this care, and people had little confidence in doctors. In the same period, healing facilities and health products ranging from medicinal mineral waters, patent medicines, food, and devices were developing in Niagara Falls as alternatives to traditional medicine. Established treatments for people with disabilities were crude and seldom effective, so the sanitariums and alternative methods and products were also used to treat diseases of the nervous system and physical…mehr

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In the 1800s medicine was primitive. Physicians often were untrained, and licensing was not yet organized. Many died because of this care, and people had little confidence in doctors. In the same period, healing facilities and health products ranging from medicinal mineral waters, patent medicines, food, and devices were developing in Niagara Falls as alternatives to traditional medicine. Established treatments for people with disabilities were crude and seldom effective, so the sanitariums and alternative methods and products were also used to treat diseases of the nervous system and physical and mental disabilities. With good marketing and common wisdom, these enterprises used a variety of colorful methods, mostly harmless, to help their customers. Mainstream medicine at the time was far more dangerous.
Autorenporträt
James M Boles is a retired Health and Human services administrator with over forty years' experience is the helping professions. Starting in direct care positions he rose to the position of CEO in a not for profit human service agency serving over 10,000 people. He has been researching early healing, health and helping agencies for many years and has an interest in under-examined or unexplored history. His background includes the opening of one of the first community group homes for the Mentally Ill, founding of the Museum of disABILITY History, Buffalo, New York and authoring and contributing to many publications. Founder of People Inc Press which publishes disability related materials. He received his Doctor of Education degree from Columbia University in 1978. For several years, as adjunct professor, he taught disability related courses at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. In 2006 he was appointed by George W. Bush to the board of The President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, serving two terms. The American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities presented him in 2011 with the Hervey B. Wilburn Historic Preservation Award.