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NOTES Interview transcripts are taken from tape-recorded interviews that are housed at the Rhode Island Folklife Archive, Providence, Rhode Island. NUMBER BEFORE ENDNOTE INDICATES PAGE IN BOOK Chapter 1 10. "Rhode Island's past hides many ... 'I don't know what I believe: ": Paul F. Eno, "They Burned Her Heat ...Was MercyBrown aVampire?" NarragansettTimes 25 October 1979,p. 1-SC. Chapter 2 22."The old superstition ... called to attend him.": ProvidenceJournal, 21 March 1892,p. 8. 22. For an overview of consumption, see Rene Dubos and jean Dubos, The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Sodety (Boston: Litde, Brown and Company, 1952),p. 5. 23. For a summary ofTB's history and treatment, see Ken Chowder,"TB:The DiseaseThat Rose from Its Grave:' Smithsonian 23, no. 8 (November 1992), pp. 180--94. 25."In the future the fight ... with a tangible parasite.": Mark Caldwell, The lAst Crusade:The War on Consumption, 1862-1954, (NewYork:Atheneum, 1988),p.160. 26. For an identification ofcompeting medical paradigms, see Horacio Fabrega,jr., Evolution ofSickness and Healing, (Berkeley and LosAngeles: University ofCalifornia Press, 1997),p. 13. 27. For a discussion ofthe four "humors:' especially blood, see Douglas Starr, Blood:An Epic History ofMedidne and Commerce, (NewYork:AlfredA. Knopf, 1998),p. 5. 28."It was heroic ... the dangerous skill ofphysicians.": Bruno Gebhard,"The Interrelationship ofScientific and Folk Medicine in the United States ofAmerica Since 1850:' in American Folk Medidne:A Symposium, edited byWayland D. Hand, 87-98 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980),p. 91. 28. For a discussion of Samuel Thompson's New Guide, see J. Worth Estes, "Samuel Thomson Rewrites Hippocrates," in Medidne and Healing, edited by Peter Benes, Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 113-32 (Boston: Boston University, 1992). 29. The list ofhealing specialists appears in Peter Benes, "Itinerant Physicians, Healers, and Surgeon-Dentists in New England and NewYork, 1720-1825," in Medidne and Healing, edited by Peter Benes,Annual Proceedings ofthe Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 95-112 (Boston: Boston University, 1992),pp.109-11. 29. "New Englanders gathered ... from public acceptance and recognition:': Peter Benes, "Itinerant Physicians:'p. 107. 29. For consumption and mortality rates, see Dubos and Dubos, The White Plague, pp. 9-10, and Sheila M. Rothman,Living in the Shadow ofDeath:Tuberculosis and the Sodal Experience offllness inAmerican History (Baltimore:Thejohns Hopkins University Press, 1994),p. 2. 29. The progression of consumption's symptoms is described in Rothman, Living in the Shadow ofDeath, p. 4. 29."Galloping" consumption is described in Dubos and Dubos, The White Plague, p. 205. 30."feelings about evil ...projected onto the world." Susan Sontag, fllness as Metaphor (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978),pp. 58-59. 306 Notes 30."appears to be built up ... enervating luxuries among the rich.": Dubos and Dubos, The White Plague,p.197. 31. For Baron's geographic correlations, see John Baron, fllustrations ofthe Enquiry Respecting Tuberculosis Diseases (London:T. and G. Underwood, 1882). 31. The index list for "Therapeutics" appears in Rothman, Living in the Shadow of Death, p.317. 31."It is important to realize ... they could do something, anything.": Starr, Blood, p. 30. 31."consumptive patients are still ... the fatal catastrophe:':Walter R. Bett, ed., The History and Conquest ofCommon Diseases (Norman, Oklahoma: University ofOklahoma Press, 1954),p. 433. 31."a disease ofincomplete civilization.": Dubos and Dubos, The White Plague, p. 219. 32."The former high mortality ... diminished by improved hygiene.": EdwinA. Locke, ed., Tuberculosis in Massachusetts (Boston:Wright & Potter, 1908), p. xi. 32."are scarcely everheard ... regards this destructive disease:':Logan Clendening, comp., Source Book ofMedical History (NewYork: Dover Publications, Inc., 1960),p. 434. 32."epidemics do not usually ... mythologize them in the same way.": Paul Barber, Utmpires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality (New Haven:Yale University Press, 1988), p. 121. 33. For a discussion ofcontagion, fear and vampires, see Barber, Utmpires, p. 37. 34."began to give evidence ... his wife followed him later on.": Letter to the editor, Pawtuxet Utlley Gleaner,25 March 1892, p. 5. 35. For a description of the development of Colorado Springs, see Rothman, Living in the Shadow ofDeath, pp. 141-42. 35."Our young fellow townsman, ... the parents ofMrs. Brown:': Pawtuxet Utlley Gleaner, 26 February 1892, p. 1. 36. "Watchers could administer medicine ... if death seemed imminent.":Jack Larkin, The Reshaping ofEveryday Life, 1790-1840 (NewYork: Harper Perennial, 1988),p. 93. 36. "Ifthe good wishes ... restored to perfect health.": Pawtuxet Utlley Gleaner,26 February 1892,p.1. 37. "the husband...