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Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820 /
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 boundar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, S.C. :
University of South Carolina Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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: signs, 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.