| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Traditional medicine -- Southern States -- History
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Traditional medicine -- Southern States -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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Medicine, Popular -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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Folklore -- Southern States
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Folklore.
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Medicine, Traditional -- history
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Folklore
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Formularies as Topic
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folklore (culture-related concept)
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
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Folklore
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Manners and customs
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Medicine, Popular
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Traditional medicine
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125663
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Southeastern United States |
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98040223 |
| ISBN |
0585334080 |
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9780585334080 |
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9781570032899 |
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1570032890 |
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