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Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820
- Title
- Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820 / Kay K. Moss.
- Author
- Moss, Kay.
- Publication
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1999.
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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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- Description
- xv, 259 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Traditional medicine > Southern States > History
- Traditional medicine > Southern States > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Medicine, Popular > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Folklore > Southern States
- Folklore
- Medicine, Traditional > history
- Folklore
- Formularies as Topic
- Manners and customs
- Medicine, Popular
- Traditional medicine
- Southern States > Social life and customs
- Southeastern United States
- Southern States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and indexes.
- 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: 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.
- ISBN
- 1570032890
- 9781570032899
- LCCN
- 98040223
- OCLC
- ocm40119721
- 40119721
- SCSB-863979
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library