Medicine and healing / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes.
| Other author | Benes, Peter. |
| Other author | Benes, Jane Montague. |
| Other author | Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Boston : Boston University, ©1992. |
| Description | 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ; Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ^A231374 |
| Contents | Childbirth practices among Native American Women of the New England and Canada, 1600-1800 -- The "hidden ones": women and healing in Colonial New England -- Traditional folk medicine in Vermont -- Medicine and disease in the diary of Benjamin Walker, shopkeeper of Boston -- Sir William Johnson and Eighteeth-Century medicine in the New York Colony -- A household and its doctor: a case study of medical account books in Colonial America -- The trials of Dr. Phillip Reade, Seventeenth-Century itinerant physician -- Itinerant physicians, healers, and surgeon-dentists in New England and New York, 1720-1825 -- Samuel Thomson rewrites Hippocrates -- The democratic medicine of Dr. Elias Smith -- Medicine and healing among the Maine shakers, 1784-1854 -- Blood, sweat, and herbs: health and medicine at the Harvard shaker community, 1820-1855 -- Derangement in the family: the story of Mary Sewall, 1824-1825 -- Obstetrical practice in South Central Massachusetts from 1834 to 1845 -- A bibliography of early American medicine. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography of early American medicine: p. 191-196. |
| Acquisitions source | Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WZ 80 M489 1992 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |