In this Issue

Table of Contents

Chimborazo, Pellagra, and Hoodoo Doctors: Health in the Antebellum and Early Modern South

Philip C. Kolin
pp. 6-11
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This Place of Death: Environment as Weapon in the American Civil War*

Margaret Humphreys
pp. 12-36
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The North vs. the South: Conditions at Civil War Hospitals

Barbra Mann Wall, Kathleen Rogers, Ann Kutney-Lee
pp. 37-55
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Ill and Injured Children on Antebellum Slave Plantations: A Dangerous Childhood

Marie Jenkins Schwartz
pp. 56-69
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Medical Racism’s Poison Pen: The Toxic World of Dr. Henry Ramsay (1821-1856)

Stephen C. Kenny
pp. 70-96
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Conjuring a Cure: Folk Healing and Modern Medicine in Charles Chesnutt’s Fiction

Gretchen Long
pp. 97-113
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“Frauds,” “Filth Parties,” “Yeast Fads,” and “Black Boxes”: Pellagra and Southern Pride, 1906-2003*

Michael A. Flannery
pp. 114-140
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“I’ll be blamed ef I hanker after making my bowels a brick-yard”: Dirt Eating in the Antebellum and Early Modern South

Deanne Stephens Nuwer
pp. 141-155
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Two-Headed Medicine: Hoodoo Workers, Conjure Doctors, and Zora Neale Hurston

Billy Middleton
pp. 156-175
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Black Comfort: A Brief History of African American Hospitals and Clinics in the Mississippi Delta in the Early Modern South

Jianqing Zheng
pp. 176-189
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1896 Typhoid Fever Outbreak in Oxford, Mississippi: A New Letter from James Ezekiel Edmonds

Jennifer Ford
pp. 190-198
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Nurses’ Training in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the 1940s and Early 1950s

David Tisdale
pp. 199-202
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Charleston, South Carolina, 1864, and: Pearl River, Louisiana, 1859

Katie Bickham
pp. 204-205
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when the Sisters of Mercy were nurses during the civil war

Lou Ella Hickman
p. 206
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Miss Scarlett at the Atlanta Train Yard

Philip C. Kolin
p. 207
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The Purple Virus

James Torrens SJ
p. 208
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Remedy: Sassafras Tea, and: Remedy: Onion

Lenard D. Moore
pp. 209-210
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Dreaming Beside the River: The Mississippi as American Vernacular

Mark Stephen Burrows
pp. 211-224
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African American Haiku: Cultural Visions ed. by John Zheng (review)

Jerry W. Ward Jr.
pp. 225-227
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Defining the Delta: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta ed. by Janelle Collins (review)

Daniel R. Maher
pp. 228-230
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Conversations with Barry Hannah ed. by James G. Thomas (review)

Jay Watson
pp. 231-233
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Glenn T. Harper (1937-2015)

pp. 234-235
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 236-238
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