Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures

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255 index Acosta, José de, 90, 175 alcohol abuse: and Moses Paul, 162, 166– 67; and Native Americans, 165–71, 182, 189. See also Occom, Samson; race Apess, William, 204–6 Astruc, Jean, 174–75, 179 Banks, Joseph, 161–64, 172–73, 180–88 Barlowe, Arthur, 39, 49, 62 Boston News-Letter, 101–2 Bradford, William, 68, 74, 82 Brainerd, David, 168–69 Brathwaite, Edward Kamau, 139–40, 158 Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. See Harriot, Thomas British Royal Society, 30, 102–3, 121, 125, 161 Certeau, Michel de, 26–27, 112 Chaplin, Joyce, 5–6, 29–30, 38 classification, 19, 28–29, 31–36, 117, 145, 160, 184–85, 199; and African knowledge, 101, 119–25; and catalogs, 41, 45, 59, 62–65, 93, 182, 185; Linnaean system of, 161–62, 185; and lists, 44–47; and manners and customs form, 181–83; and moral history, 69, 90–93, 96; and Native American knowledge, 59–63, 90–93; and natural history, 130, 148–51, 159; and Samson Occom’s rewriting of, 163–165, 183–88, 195; and race, 63, 168–69; and recipes, 77–79 climate: influence on Africans, 35–36, 133–34, 146–48, 153, 202–5; influence on colonists, 4, 9, 18–28, 31–32, 41, 54–56, 59, 61–62, 65, 67, 71–93, 119, 121–25, 142–46, 150–51, 159–60; influence on Natives, 23–24, 171–81, 184–85, 191–92, 202; and writing, 27–28, 144–46. See also race Cohen, Matt, 74, 227n50 Collins, David, 155, 158, 203 commensurability, 1–4, 18, 32, 198, 201, 205–6 Cook, James, 36, 161–64, 172–73, 183–85, 187 Crosby, Alfred, 4–5 Cushman, Robert, 70–72, 89, 92 diabolic knowledge. See witchcraft Douglass, William, 34–35, 98–99, 145, 193, 202; and African medical knowledge, 104–7, 119–25, 132, 148–50, 160; and history of inoculation, 101–4, 111; and rationalist views of language, 115–19; and satire, 103–4; social position of, 99–101, 121–25, 231n11 Eliot, John, 95–96 Ensenore, 42–43, 46 environmental theories of human nature. See climate; race epidemics, contact-era (1616–1619), 5, 7, 16, 34, 53–55, 66–68, 79–84, 91. See also individual diseases 256 Index Galenic medicine. See humoral theories Georgic form, 127–30, 133–38, 142, 144–45, 148, 152; and African knowledge, 130– 31, 134; and footnotes, 135–38, 146, 157–59; and obeah, 129–30 Good Newes from New England. See Winslow, Edward Grainger, James, 3, 34–36, 171, 179, 193, 202–3; and colonial degeneration, 142–46; and Essay on the More Common West-India Diseases, 130, 132, 148–55; and knowledge of obeah, 130– 33; and reception of The Sugar-Cane, 144–45; and slave trade, 151–55 Greenblatt, Stephen, 8–13, 38 Gruzinski, Serge, 64–65, 95–96 Harriot, Thomas, 10–11, 33–34, 74, 79, 89–91, 93, 117, 120, 173, 202–3; and environmental theories of disease, 54–56; and “invisible-bullets” theory of disease, 44–48; and Paracelsian medical philosophy, 56–59; and tobacco, 59–64 Hawkesworth, John, 162–63, 172–73, 180– 86, 195 historia, 9–11, 28, 32, 45, 65, 73–79, 101, 103 Hobbamock (Wampanoag translator), 81, 83 Huarte, Juan, 21, 25, 202 Hughes, Griffith, 138–41,158 humoral theories, 20–25, 38–39, 55–56, 70, 85–86 imagination, theories of, 20–21, 24–29, 34, 60–61, 89, 117–18, 123, 145–47, 156, 160, 201–5 incommensurability, 8–13, 15 inoculation: in Africa, 107–8; African knowledge of, 16–17, 34–35, 111–19, 125–27; in Boston, 97–104, 109–11; in the Caribbean, 104–7. See also Douglass, William; Mather, Cotton intercultural texts, 17, 32–33; and performance studies, 18 Jefferson, Thomas, 179, 203–4 Joyfull Newes Out of the Newe Found Worlde. See Monardes, Nicolás Kalm, Peter, 140–41, 158 Kirkland, Samuel, 169–71, 181 Lane, Ralph, 33, 40–48, 57–58 Lawson, John, 49, 51, 53 LeClerc, Georges (Comte de Buffon), 23, 179 Locke, John, 101, 117–18 Long, Edwards, 141, 143, 203 Manitou, 49, 80–84 Manteo, 39–40, 42–43 Markham, Gervase, 74, 76–77 Mather, Cotton, 3, 16–17, 35, 96, 119; and African knowledge of inoculation, 98–99, 107, 109–15; and the plain style, 111–15; social position of, 99–101, 115; and witchcraft, 121–22 Massasoit, 11, 34, 67, 81, 96, 225n7; and illness, 68–69, 73–79...