Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820 /

The author "inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike ... [and] shows how families passed down cures as heirlooms, how remedies crossed cultural and ethnic boundar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moss, Kay
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1999.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=51041