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Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820 / Kay K. Moss.
- Title
- Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820 / Kay K. Moss.
- Author
- Moss, Kay.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GR108 .M67 1999 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Moss, Kay.
- Description
- xv, 259 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments. Bringing to light several previously unpublished primary sources, Kay K. Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike.
- She 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Medicine, Traditional > history
- Traditional medicine > Southern States > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Southeastern United States
- Medicine, Popular > Southern States > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Southern States > Social life and customs
- Traditional medicine > Southern States > History
- Folklore > Southern States
- ISBN
- 1570032890 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 98040223
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries