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Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 / Kay K. Moss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moss, Kay, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traditional medicine--Southern States--History.
- Traditional medicine.
- Traditional medicine--Southern States--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 259 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [1999]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author "inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike ... [and] shows how families passed down cures as heirlooms, how remedies crossed cultural and ethnic boundaries, and how domestic healers compounded native herbs and plants with exotic ingredients."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1: Domestic medicine in the eighteenth century
- Ch. 1. Much that may be called domestic: every man his own doctor
- Ch. 2. The sources: from the pens of eighteenth-century folk
- Ch. 3. The distempers: disease in the eighteenth century
- Pt. 2: The remedies
- Ch. 4. General therapies
- Ch. 5. Patent medicines and famous nostrums
- Ch. 6. Acute diseases
- Ch. 7. Chronic internal complaints
- Ch. 8. Common external complaints
- Ch. 9. Disorders of the senses
- Ch. 10. Poisoning
- Ch. 11. Women's disorders
- Ch. 12. Nervous diseases
- Ch. 13. Surgery
- Ch. 14. Sympathetic medicine: sign, charms, incantations, and spells
- Pt. 3: A domestic materia medica
- Introduction
- Key to sources
- Simples and medicinal preparations fit for home practice
- Appendixes: A. Weights and measures
- B. Classes of medicinal preparations
- C. The southern frontier and the eighteenth century
- D. A blaze of medical knowledge: The eighteenth century
- E. The professional practitioner: physician, surgeon, preacher, or quack.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781643362915
- 1643362917
- 9780585334080
- 0585334080
- OCLC:
- 1290479207
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