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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro; About This Edition; Summary; INTRODUCTION.; PART ONE.; CHAPTER 1. ANATOMY.; CHAPTER TWO. THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH WITHOUT THE USE OF MEDICINES.; PART TWO. CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE, AND THE METHOD OF TREATMENT.; CATARRH OR COLD-(Oo-hur-tlah.); INFLUENZA OR MALIGNANT SORE THROAT. (Oh-ch-tlah-tsu-ni-sik-wah-his-lee.; PLEURISY.-Oh-ne-squah-ga-ni-tsu-na-his-na.; DROPSY-Tsa-no-tis-scoh.; DYSPEPSY, OR INDIGESTION. (Oh-ne-na-tse-tsunah-li-stoo-na.); FLUX OR DYSENTARY. (Gee-guh-tsi-too-nuh-goo-skah.); DIARRHOE OR LAX.-(TSU-NE-SQUAH-LAH-TEE) |
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HEMORRHOIDS OR PILES. [TSU-NAH-TEE-KAH-STEE-TSI-KAH-NU-GO-GAH. CHOLERA MORBUS, OR PUKING AND PURGING. (Tah-to-ne-tse-luh-ne-gah-slee.); SCROFULA OR KINGS-EVIL.-(Oo-niller-oo-tah-ner.); ULCERS.-(Yah-nah-wa-skur.); CANCER.-[Oh-tah-yeh-sku.]; SORE LEGS-(Oh-nuh-sco-hah.); WHITE SWELLING.-(COLAH-TE-COH-NU-GO-GEE.); FELON OR WHITLOW-(Oo-ne-scoh-hupee.); PHTHISIC OR ASTHMA.-(Tse-nah-wah-ste-skow.); FEVERS.; INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN.; INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH.; INFLAMMATION OF THE INTESTINES.; INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS.; INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER.; INFLAMMATION OF THE SPLEEN |
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INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. CONSUMPTION. (Oo-coh-yoh-ter-tsu-ne-si-wah-skan.); RUPTURE OR HERNIA.; RHEUMATISM-(Tsi-tah-nah-ler-la-skah.); INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM.; CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.; JAUNDICE.-(Foh-lo-ne-ga-tse-nah-noh-stee.); FALLING OF THE PALATE.; POISONS.-(Oo-skoh-sog-tee.); ANIMAL POISONS OR SNAKE BITE. (E-NAH-TUH-OO-NE-SKAH-LOW-TSUH.); STING OF INSECTS.; VEGETABLE POISONS.; MINERAL POISONS.; POISONS OF THE SKIN.; MILK SICK. (Oo-muh-ty-tsu-ni-tlah-e-stee.); SCURVY.-(Tah-ne-no-loh-quh-tsi-tuh-ne-youh-tso.); DEAFNESS.-[Tsi-too-ni-leah-no-gah.]; EAR ACHE.-(TSU-NE-LE-SQUASH-TE.) |
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EPILEPSY-(Epilepsied.)APOPLEXY.-(Apoplexia.); VENERIAL.-(Tsu-ne-nu-sup-huh-skah.); POX.-[Oo-ni-lech,]; CLAP.; BLOODY URINE.; GRAVEL AND STONE. [Tsu-ni-nic-luh-huh-sko-oh-tekoh-luh.]; DIABETES.; CHOLIC.-[Tsu-ne-yoh-low-tis-scoh.]; BILIOUS CHOLIC.; NERVOUS CHOLIC.; LOCKED JAW.; TOOTH-ACHE.-(Oo-yoh-quah-li-skee.); BEALED JAW. (Coh-you-cah-tsi-tuh-nu-tis-lay.); PALSY-(Tsu-ni-luh-tah.luh-uh-skah.); WEN.; DISEASES OF THE SKIN.; SCALD-HEAD. (Tsa-nah-li-stah-wo.); TETTER-WORM. Oo-coh-yok-ter-oo-ne-squaw-her; RING-WORM.; ITCH.-[Oo-ni-tsi-lah.]; SHINGLES.; ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE OR ERYSIPELAS |
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SMALL-POX (Oo-nuh-leh-qualee)VACCINATION.; CHICKEN POX.; MEASLES.; MUMPS-(TE-LE-G-NAH-TSI-LUH-NO-TIS-SAY.); BURNS AND SCALDS.-[OO-NE-LOG-YER-SUK.; FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. [Oo-nah-tuh-log-sah.]; WOUNDS AND CUTS.-(Oo-nah-tah-leh-ger.); HOOPING-COUGH.; PART III; CHAPTER 1.; DISEASES PECULIAR TO THE UNIMPREGNATED STATE.; CHAPTER II. DISEASES OF THE PREGNANT STATE.; CHAPTER III.; CHAPTER IV.; CHAPTER V. FALLING OF THE WOMB.; CHAPTER VI. DISEASES OF CHILDREN.; PART THREE.; INDIAN MATERIA MEDICA. PRINCIPALLY BOTANICAL.; GLOSSARY, ; OR EXPLANATION OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS |
| Summary |
The extended title of The Cherokee Physician serves as an apt summary of its contents. The book was the result of a remarkable collaboration between James Mahoney, an Irish American and native Tennesseean, and Richard Foreman, whose parental ancestry was probably Scottish and Cherokee. Typical of its time, the book dispenses moral advice as cheerfully as medical advice. Needless to say, much of its advice flies in the face of modern medical practice and should not be applied. Foreman and Mahoney warn against sitting by an open window and offer conjecture, now disproven, about the pathologies of illnesses such as yellow fever and undulant fever ("milk sickness"). On the other hand, some of its cures have come into vogue or else find modern scientific endorsement, with examples from the text including the anti-inflammatory properties of red pepper and the usefulness of the European plantain. The volume has intrigued homeopathic practitioners through the years, and attracted the interest of contemporaneous practitioners, including, for instance, one doctor who wrote to the Therapeutic Gazette (September 1881) to enthusiastically endorse its cure for "gravel" through Gravel Weed (Actinomeris Helianthoides). "Gravel" translates to kidney stones in contemporary parlance; modern homeopathic sources say little about the common flower's use as a diuretic, furnishing one example of knowledge in The Cherokee Physician that has escaped modern evaluation. The book offers, by slant, interesting ethnographic observations, equally unproven |
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"DocSouth books edition." |
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Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 11, 2018) |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Medicine.
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Cherokee Indians -- Medicine
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Medicine, Popular.
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Herbs -- Therapeutic use.
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Botany, Medical -- North Carolina
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Medicine, Preventive.
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Electronic books.
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Preventive Medicine
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e-books.
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Botany, Medical
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Cherokee Indians -- Medicine
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Herbs -- Therapeutic use
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Indians of North America -- Medicine
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Medicine, Popular
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Medicine, Preventive
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North Carolina
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mahoney, Jas. W. (James W.), author.
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| ISBN |
9781469641737 |
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1469641739 |
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9781469641744 |
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1469641747 |
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