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1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Traditional medicine -- Southern States -- History.
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Traditional medicine. |
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Southern States. |
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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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Medicine, Popular. |
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Folklore -- Southern States.
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Folklore. |
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Southern States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Medicine, Traditional -- history. |
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Folklore. |
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Formularies as Topic. |
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Southeastern United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moss, Kay. Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1999 1570032890 (DLC) 98040223 (OCoLC)40119721 |
| ISBN |
0585334080 (electronic book) |
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9780585334080 (electronic book) |
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1570032890 (cloth) |
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