ISBN:
0585334080
,
9780585334080
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 259 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820
DDC:
615.882097509032
Keywords:
Traditional medicine History
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Southern States
;
Traditional medicine Southern States
;
Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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Medicine, Popular Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
;
Southern States
;
Folklore Southern States
;
Traditional medicine History
;
Traditional medicine
;
Medicine, Popular Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
;
Folklore
;
Folklore
;
Medicine, Popular Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
;
Traditional medicine History
;
Traditional medicine
;
Formularies
;
Folklore
;
Medicine, Traditional History
;
Formularies as Topic
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Manners and customs
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Medicine, Popular
;
Traditional medicine
;
Folklore
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Anthropology
;
Social Sciences
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PSYCHOLOGY ; Psychotherapy ; General
;
Folklore
;
History
;
Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc
;
Southern States Social life and customs
;
Southern States Social life and customs
;
Southern States Social life and customs
;
Southeastern United States
;
Southern States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Ch. 12. Nervous diseasesCh. 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. 1: Domestic medicine in the eighteenth centuryCh. 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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