{"product_id":"southern-folk-medicine-1750-1820-kay-k-moss-9781570039515","title":"Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores homespun remedies and medicinal herbs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820\u003c\/i\u003e explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments. Bringing to light several previously unpublished primary sources, Kay K. Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses,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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf particular interest to natural historians, an extensive guide to medicinal plants, their scientific names, and their traditional uses is also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kay K. Moss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570039518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570039515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Kay K. Moss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985163223295,"sku":"9781570039515","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb788284-ff41-4d2f-8d66-40264c3b10dc.jpg?v=1683275923","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/southern-folk-medicine-1750-1820-kay-k-moss-9781570039515","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}