| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Southern States.
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Medicine, Popular -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
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Traditional medicine -- Southern States -- History.
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Traditional medicine -- Southern States -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
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Folklore.
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Formularies as Topic.
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Medicine, Traditional -- history.
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Southern States -- Social life and customs.
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Southeastern United States. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585334080 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585334080 (electronic bk.) |
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(cloth) |
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