Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America

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213 Adams, Daniel, 182n24 advertisements, medical, 98–102, 185n21, 185–86n32 African Americans, medical practices/ beliefs, 45, 111–12, 170n60, 172n2, 172n6 agricultural almanacs, 184n2 alcohol use, effects of, 48, 60, 76–81, 96, 181–82n21. See also intemperance, effects of Alcott, William, 65, 165n39, 182n36 Almanack of Coelestial Motions and Aspects (Travis), 23–24 almanacs: comparison of remedies, 14, 48, 54, 57–58, 62; competitors, 167n6; content, 3–4, 7; current state of, 108–9; decline of, 40, 102, 104, 108, 161n4; demographic changes, 8–9; forms of literature in, 69; history of, 2–3; market for, 5, 8; points of sale, 162n15; popular culture, study of, 1–2; telling time, importance in, 162n13. See also specialty almanacs Almanacs of the United States, 163n24 Almanac Warehouse, 25 alternative medical systems, 12, 50–52, 58, 64, 161n6, 161n9, 1162n13, 171–72n2, 184n4 American Antiquarian Society, 38 American Calendar, 53 American Farmer’s Almanac, 62 American Farmers’ Almanac, The, 171n2 American Sunday-School Union, 166n39 American Tract Society, 76, 95, 110, 166n39, 185n20 Ames, Nathaniel, Jr., 8, 69, 88, 181n7 Ames, Nathaniel, Sr., 5, 7–8, 29–30, 69, 82–83, 88, 110, 181n7 Ammoniacum, 178n54 “Anatomy,” 4, 20f, 21f; and astrological medicine, 18–19, 27–28, 162n11, 168n26; and Franklin, 27, 168n26; and illiteracy, 35; included in almanacs to increase sales, 33; inclusion by region, 113, 167n11; omission of, 30–34; and poetry, 23, 27–28, 30, 32; and specialty almanacs, 95, 98, 102; as teaching tool, 94 Anderson’s Cough Drops and Pectoral Powers, 100 Appleton, Moses, 48, 49, 112 Aristotle, 35 Aristotle’s Masterpiece, 11 artichokes, 47, 173n10 “Art of Preserving Health, The,” 68 astrology, 17–41, 20f, 21f, 112; 19thcentury revival, 37–38; and almanac sales, 32–33; and “Anatomy,” 18–19, 27, 162n11, 168n26; in British almanacs, 3; and calendars, 25; characters, 26f; criticism of, 19, 30–32, 98; and decline of almanacs, 40; defense of, 28–29; and health, 29; and immigration, 34–35; as integral part of almanacs, 36, 37, 39; judicial, 17, 34; medical, 18–19, 37–38; moon cycles, 18–19, 22–25, 35–36, 167n8, 168n18; natural, 17, 28, 34; occult titles, 170n57; in Pennsylvania German community, 25, 27, 167n11, 170n55, 170n63; in Philadelphia almanacs, 24–25; and physicians, 17–18; popularity of, 18, 36–39; and Puritan ideal, 19, 34–35; readers’ desire for, 3–4, 40–41; in religious almanacs, 97–98; and seasonal advice, 22–23; support for, 35–36; and the zodiac, 4, 18, 22–23, 24, 162n11 Astronomical Diary (Low), 20f, 69 astronomy, 3 INDEX 214 INDEX Atkins, Samuel, 98 Autobiography (Franklin), 5 balance (bodily equilibrium), 49–51, 58; and African American therapeutic systems, 111; and excess fluid, 44, 46–47, 51, 55–56; and fever, 64; between mental and physical powers, 83; and moderation, 95–96; and passions, 85–87, 97, 183n51. See also humoralism Baldwin, Christopher Columbus, 38 Balsam of Lucatelli, 53, 176n32 Baltimore Almanac, or Time Piece, 60, 62, 74 Beach, Wooster, 50, 51, 58, 64 Beers’ Almanac, 99 Bell, John, 77, 91, 110, 182n38, 184n4 Benes, Peter, 39 Bennett & Walton’s Almanac, 71–72 Bickerstaff’s Boston Almanac (West), 6 biographical sketches, 71 Bioren’s Town and Country Almanack, 47, 48 Blake, John, 14 bleeding. See bloodletting bloodletting, 22, 93, 168n19; and bloody flux, 53–54, 177–78n46; criticism of, 51, 93; and dropsy, 49, 175n23; and fever, 56; and moon cycles, 19, 24, 25, 167n8; and rheumatism, 63–64 bloody flux, 43, 52–59; and bloodletting, 53–54, 177–78n46; Buchan on, 54–55, 57; comparison of remedies, 54, 57–58; dietary advice, 55, 57–58; and fever, 55–59; purge, 53–54; “A Recipe for the Flux,” 54; and red/slippery elm, 177n45; and sanitation, 52, 176n28 bodily equilibrium. See balance (bodily equilibrium) bodily heat, 51. See also fever body, relationship to environment, 172n3 body-mind relationship, 85, 87–88, 183n48 Boerhaave, Hermann, 45, 56 bolus, 174n21 book trade, 9–11, 164n28, 184n13 Boston Almanack (Harris), 22 botanical doctors/remedies, 12, 50–52, 58, 171–72n2 Bradford, William, 98 Brandreth, Benjamin, 100–101 Brattle, William, 3 Briggs, Samuel, 1–2, 102, 104 British almanacs, 3 Brooke, John, 37 broom seed, 48, 174n18 Broussais, François, 82, 182–83n38 Buchan, William, 65, 89, 165n36; and bloody flux, 54–55, 57; on diet, 82; Domestic Medicine, 49, 68, 77, 84; and dropsy, 49; on laziness, 84; on orange peel, 174–75n21; and rheumatism, 59– 60, 63–64 Burdell, John, 94, 110 burdock...