Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820

Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820
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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 1570032890
ISBN-13 : 9781570032899
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 by : Kay Moss

Download or read book Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 written by Kay Moss and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, preachers and quacks alike. She 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.


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