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Traditional medicine--Southern States--History, Traditional medicine--Southern States--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Medicine, Popular--Southern States--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Folklore--Southern States, Southern States--Social life and cu
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1999
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GR108.M67 1999eb
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615.8/82/097509032
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Traditional medicine--Southern States--History, Traditional medicine--Southern States--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Medicine, Popular--Southern States--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Folklore--Southern States, Southern States--Social life and cu
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Southern Folk Medicine 17501820
Kay K. Moss
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1999 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moss, Kay. Southern folk medicine, 17501820 / Kay K. Moss. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-57003-289-0 (cloth) 1. Traditional medicineSouthern StatesHistory. 2. Traditional medicineSouthern StatesFormulae, receipts, prescriptions. 3. Medicine, PopularSouthern StatesFormulae, receipts, prescriptions. 4. Folklore Southern States. 5. Southern StatesSocial life and customs. I. Title. GR108 .M67 1999 615.8'82'097509032dc21 98-40223
The material contained in this book is being published solely because of its historical interest and is not intended as a source of recipes for the modern reader or of medical information or advice. Neither author nor publisher assumes any responsibility for the reader's application of the material contained herein.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
vii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
Part 1: Domestic Medicine in the Eighteenth Century
3
Chapter 1 Much That May Be Called Domestic: Every Man His Own Doctor
5
Chapter 2 The Sources: From the Pens of Eighteenth-Century Folk
9
Chapter 3 The Distempers: Disease in the Eighteenth Century
20
Part 2: The Remedies
25
Chapter 4 General Therapies
27
Chapter 5 Patent Medicines and Famous Nostrums
44
Chapter 6 Acute Diseases
49
Chapter 7 Chronic Internal Complaints
80
Chapter 8 Common External Complaints
96
Chapter 9 Disorders of the Senses
113
Chapter 10 Poisoning
124
Chapter 11 Women's Disorders
135
Chapter 12 Nervous Diseases
145
Chapter 13 Surgery
148
Chapter 14 Sympathetic Medicine: Signs, Charms, Incantations, and Spells
152
Part 3: A Domestic Materia Medica
163
Introduction
165
Key to Sources
166
Simples and Medicinal Preparations Fit for Home Practice
169
Appendix A Weights and Measures
213
Appendix B Classes of Medicinal Preparations
214
Appendix C The Southern Frontier and the Eighteenth Century
218
Appendix D A Blaze of Medical Knowledge: The Eighteenth Century
219
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Appendix E The Professional Practitioner: Physician, Surgeon, Preacher, or Quack
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