Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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365 u Index u A∆eck, Thomas, 211, 212 African Americans, 5, 9, 49–51, 54; and African healthways, 118–19, 134–35, 170, 173; and diagnosis, 144–45; and feigning (‘‘possuming ’’), 51, 172–74, 216, 232; free, 107, 171–72, 260, 265–67; and risk of disease, 208–18. See also Patients; Race; Slaves (and slavery) Agassiz, Louis, 240 Akens, T. M., 111 Allan, Algernon, 93 Allen, Joseph Eve, 35, 48 Alternative healers, 7, 22, 88, 122–23, 252– 53. See also Country orthodoxy; Orthodox medicine: and vernacular medicine American Medical Association, 23, 239 Anatomy. See Medical education: anatomy Anderson, L. B., 158 Anderson, William, 129 Anesthesia. See Medical procedures: anesthesia Ansley, Mary, 113 Anthony (slave), 31 Antisepsis. See Medical procedures: antisepsis Antony, Milton, 36 Apprenticeship, 16, 20, 26, 27–31, 82. See also Medical education; Medical schools Armstrong, A., 104 Army of Northern Virginia, 270 Arnold, Richard, 125–26, 129 Augusta, Ga. See Medical education; Medical schools; Southern places Bachelor, Albert, 57, 97, 157 Bacon, Francis, 72 Baglivi, Georgio, 72 Bailey, R. S., 170 Bailey, Thomas P., 265–66 Bairel, Sudie, 125 Ball, Charles, 126 Barr, Jane, 114 Barton, Edward, 82 Baruch, Simon, 171, 270 Bassett, Isaphoena, 256 Bassett, John Young, 110, 203, 207, 249–57 Bates, F. A., 231 Battey, Martha, 129 Battey, Robert, 80, 264 Bayless, George, 65 Becton, Frederick, 206 Bedside notes, 102, 167–68, 175–99, 232. See also Case narratives; Daybooks Bell, Elizabeth, 114 Ben (slave), 230 Berly, Joel, 139, 266 Bessie (slave), 135 Bets (slave), 180 Bibb, Dandridge, 64, 78–79 Blair, I. H., 36 Blistering. See Medical procedures: blistering Bloodletting. See Medical procedures: venesection (bloodletting) Bodies: and anatomy, 59–61, 64, 67–68, 216– 17; in case narratives, 232–34; and diagnosis , 141–49, 183–85; and health talk, 114–15; physicians’, 143–45; in physicians’ notes, 179, 186–87, 191, 192; as signifiers, 96, 133, 142–44, 219, 223, 225; and violence , 159–62. See also Medical education: anatomy Bonner, William, 54 Bowman, Ralph, 265 366 u index Boyd, Alfred, 144 Brandon, Zillah, 134 Briggs, James A., 205 Broyles, William, 62 Butler, Robert, 106 Caldwell, Charles, 36–37, 38, 221–22 Caldwell, W. Hugh, 111 Calomel. See Medicines: calomel Campbell, Alexander, 111 Campbell, David, 114 Cantrell, Matilda, 244 Caregiving: in clinics, 53–54, 58; in homes, 6, 46–47, 73, 103, 131, 135, 151, 198–99, 247–48. See also Physicians: and bedside practice Carrigan, A. V., 34 Cartwright, Samuel A., 209, 215–18 Case narratives, 3, 12, 102, 124, 167, 228– 58, 269–70. See also Bedside notes; Daybooks Castor oil. See Medicines: castor oil Chaillé, Stanford, 129, 269 Chapman, James, 138 Charity Hospital (New Orleans, La.), 36, 53, 54, 287 (n. 20) Charles (slave), 234–35 Charleston, S.C. See Medical education; Medical schools; Southern places Chester, Charles, 147 Chicken soup, 80 Children, 5, 25, 46, 115–16, 171. See also Women Childress, Pleasant, 123 Chisolm, Julian J., 268 Christmas, [Winfield?], 101, 103 City Hospital (Charleston, S.C.), 267 Civil War, 4, 9, 15, 81, 152, 201, 205, 251; aftermath of, 259–71 Clark, Courtney, 37, 43, 123, 176, 192–99, 234–35 Clark, J. E., 88 Class. See Social class Climate (and weather), 117, 120, 133, 153, 202, 210, 285 (n. 11) Cochran, W. A., 267 Cocke, John H., 117 Colmer, George, 101–3, 106, 110, 111, 112, 265–66 Communities: as ideal for practice, 3, 11, 24, 65, 78–79, 130, 205, 218, 221, 227, 239, 250; as influencing medicine, 7, 66, 69, 84– 90, 92, 114, 127, 128, 148, 149, 199, 252, 253–55; and medical knowledge, 45, 47, 51–52, 58, 72–74, 95, 204, 242, 246. See also South; Southern places Cooke, John Esten, 43, 150 Cooper, Thomas, 78, 219 Copes, James, 83 Copes, Joseph S., 28, 33, 81, 83–84, 137 Copes, Thomas, 83–84 Country orthodoxy: and local communities, 7, 69, 77, 102, 127–29, 259, 270; and medical knowledge, 2–3, 12, 114, 144, 146, 148, 176, 178, 198, 200, 214, 219, 235, 243, 250, 259; and practice, 42, 57, 59, 74–75, 97, 120, 131, 195, 196, 224. See also Communities ; Orthodox medicine Cousins, Frederick, 122 Cox, A. B., 269 Cox, Thomas, 107 Cozart, William, 57 Cullen, William, 72 Cunningham, Russell M., 17 Daniel (slave), 174 Darby, John T., 269 Davidson, Richard, 82 Davies, Maria, 135, 137 Davis, J. H., 112 Davis, Thomas, 104 Daybooks, 101–9 passim, 167, 265–66. See also Bedside notes; Case narratives Death...