附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and indexes.
pt. 1: Domestic medicine in the eighteenth century -- Ch. 1. Much that may be called domestic: every man his own doctor -- Ch. 2. The sources: from the pens of eighteenth-century folk -- Ch. 3. The distempers: disease in the eighteenth century -- pt. 2: The remedies -- Ch. 4. General therapies -- Ch. 5. Patent medicines and famous nostrums -- Ch. 6. Acute diseases -- Ch. 7. Chronic internal complaints -- Ch. 8. Common external complaints -- Ch. 9. Disorders of the senses -- Ch. 10. Poisoning -- Ch. 11. Women's disorders.
Ch. 12. Nervous diseases -- Ch. 13. Surgery -- Ch. 14. Sympathetic medicine: signs, charms, incantations, and spells -- pt. 3: A domestic materia medica -- Introduction -- Key to sources -- Simples and medicinal preparations fit for home practice -- Appendixes: A. Weights and measures -- B. Classes of medicinal preparations -- C. The southern frontier and the eighteenth century -- D.A blaze of medical knowledge: The eighteenth century -- E. The professional practitioner: physician, surgeon, preacher, or quack.
摘要: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 boundaries, and how domestic healers compounded native herbs and plants with exotic ingredients."--Jacket.
