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Popular print and popular medicine : almanacs and health advice in early America
- Title
- Popular print and popular medicine : almanacs and health advice in early America / Thomas A. Horrocks.
- Author
- Horrocks, Thomas A.
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- xii, 221 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Almanacs, American > History > 18th century
- Social medicine > United States > History > 18th century
- Medicine, Popular > History > 19th century
- Almanacs, American > History > 19th century
- United States
- History, 18th Century
- Astrology, American > History > 19th century
- Social Medicine > history
- Medical literature > United States > History > 18th century
- Astrology, American > History > 18th century
- Medical literature > United States > History > 19th century
- History, 19th Century
- Medicine, Popular > History > 18th century
- Social medicine > United States > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-211) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Almanacs and the Literature of Popular Health in Early America -- 1. Heavenly Guidance -- 2. Advice for the Afflicted -- 3. Prescribing Prevention -- 4. Health Advice with an Agenda.
- ISBN
- 9781558496576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1558496572 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781558496569 (library cloth : alk. paper)
- 1558496564 (library cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008003103
- OCLC
- ocn183179331
- 183179331
- SCSB-5422237
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries