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The extended title of The Cherokee Physician serves as an apt
summary of its contents. The book was the result of a remarkable
collaboration between James Mahoney, an Irish American and native
Tennesseean, and Richard Foreman, whose parental ancestry was
probably Scottish and Cherokee. Typical of its time, the book
dispenses moral advice as cheerfully as medical advice. Needless to
say, much of its advice flies in the face of modern medical
practice and should not be applied. Foreman and Mahoney warn
against sitting by an open window and offer conjecture, now
disproven, about the pathologies of illnesses such as yellow fever
and undulant fever (""milk sickness""). On the other hand, some of
its cures have come into vogue or else find modern scientific
endorsement, with examples from the text including the
anti-inflammatory properties of red pepper and the usefulness of
the European plantain. The volume has intrigued homeopathic
practitioners through the years, and attracted the interest of
contemporaneous practitioners, including, for instance, one doctor
who wrote to the Therapeutic Gazette (September 1881) to
enthusiastically endorse its cure for ""gravel"" through Gravel
Weed (Actinomeris Helianthoides). ""Gravel"" translates to kidney
stones in contemporary parlance; modern homeopathic sources say
little about the common flower's use as a diuretic, furnishing one
example of knowledge in The Cherokee Physician that has escaped
modern evaluation. The book offers, by slant, interesting
ethnographic observations, equally unproven.
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