RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Self-help medical advice was popular in the 1930s, too
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1272
OP 1273
VO 157
IS 9
A1 Clarfield, M.
YR 1997
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/157/9/1272.abstract
AB Self-help books proliferate today, but the concept of helping oneself in health matters is certainly not a modern phenomenon, Dr. Mark Clarfield notes. He recently studied a self-help booklet from 1936, What to do until the doctor comes, in which he found not only some sound advice but also some harmless suggestions, useless treatments and dangerous remedies.