Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 (Paperback)

Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments. Bringing to light several previously unpublished primary sources, Kay K. Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike. Moss 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. Moss assembles her picture of domestic medical practice largely from an analysis of twelve commonplace books--or repositories of information, medical and otherwise--kept by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century southerners. She reveals that men and women of all social classes collected medical guidance and receipts in handwritten journals. Whether well educated or unlettered, many preferred home remedies over treatment by the region's few professional physicians. Of particular interest to natural historians, an extensive guide to medicinal plants, their scientific names, and their traditional uses is also included.

General

Imprint:	University of South Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	April 2010
Authors:	Kay K. Moss
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-57003-951-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > History > History of other lands
LSN:	1-57003-951-8
Barcode:	9781570039515

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