TY - GEN T1 - Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820 A1 - Moss, Kay LA - English PP - Columbia PB - University Of South Carolina Press YR - 2010 ED - Pbk. edition. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1291280967 AB - "Explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments ... 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"--Page 4 of cover OP - 259 CN - GR108 .M67 2010eb SN - 9781643362915 SN - 1643362917 SN - 1570039518 SN - 9781570039515 KW - Traditional medicine : Southern States : History. KW - Traditional medicine : Southern States : Formulae, receipts, prescriptions. KW - Medicine, Popular : Formulae, receipts, prescriptions. KW - Folklore : Southern States. KW - Southern States : Social life and customs. KW - Médecine traditionnelle : États-Unis (Sud) : Formules et recettes. KW - Médecine : Ouvrages de vulgarisation : Formules et recettes. KW - Folklore : États-Unis (Sud) KW - MEDICAL : Alternative Medicine. KW - Folklore KW - Manners and customs KW - Medicine, Popular KW - Traditional medicine KW - Southern States KW - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions. KW - History KW - Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc. ER -