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1734Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country.
TENNENT, John (1700 – 1760)
1754The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants, particulary the forest trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors. Together with their descriptions in English and French. To which are added, observations on the air, soil, and waters with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. To the whole is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of / by the late Mark Catesby; revised by Mr. [George] Edwards. 2 vols.
CATESBY, Mark (1683 – 1749)
EDWARDS, George (1693 – 1773)
EDWARDS, George (1693 – 1773)
1776An account of the weather and diseases of South-Carolina. 2 vols.
CHALMERS, Lionel (1715 – 1777)
1791Travels through North & South Carolina, George, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws [sic]...
BARTRAM, William (1739 – 1823)
BARTRAM, William (1739 – 1823)
1797The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia. Including their systematic characters, the particulars of their several metamorphoses, and the plants on which they feed. Collected from the observations of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country, by James Edward Smith.
ABBOT, John (1751 – 1840)
ABBOT, John (1751 – 1840)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
1807The planter's and mariner's medical companion: treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. To which are subjoined a dispensatory, shewing how to prepare and administer family medicines, and a glossary giving an explanation of technical terms.
EWELL, James (1773 – 1832)
1814Botanic medicine: A new and complete American medical family herbal: Wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America, together with Lewis' secret remedy newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog.
HENRY, Samuel
1821A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings.
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
1825Medical facts and inquiries, respecting the causes, nature, prevention and cure of fever: more expressly in relation to the endemic fevers of summer and autumn in the southern states: Together with a history of the bilious remitting fever of Alabama, as it appeared in Cahawba and its vicinity in the summers and autumns of 1821 and 1822.
HEUSTIS, Jabez Wiggins (1784 – 1841)
1830Gunn’s domestic medicine, or poor man’s friend in the hours of affliction, pain, and sickness. This book points out, in plain language, free from doctor's terms the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is expressly written for the benefit of families in the western and southern states. It also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the western and southern country, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases: arranged on a new and simple plan, by which the practice of medicine reduced to the principles of common sense.
GUNN, John C.
1832Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York; called the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; with advice to the planters of the South, for the medical treatment of their slaves.
YATES, Christopher C. (1778 – 1848)
1850​–1851Southern medical reports: Consisting of general and special reports, on the medical topography, meteorology, and prevalent diseases, in the following states: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas. Edited by E. D. Fenner. 2 vols.
FENNER, Erasmus Darwin (1807 – 1866)
1857Indigenous races of the earth; or new chapters of ethnological enquiry: Including monographs on special departments of philology, iconography, cranioscopy, palaeontology, pathology, archaeology, comparative geography and natural history: Contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky, and J. Aiken Meigs. With contributions from Jos. Leiden and L. Agassiz. Presenting fresh investigations by J. C. Nott and Geo. R. Glidden.
AGASSIZ, Louis Jean Rodolphe (1807 – 1873)
AGASSIZ, Louis Jean Rodolphe (1807 – 1873)
LEIDY, Joseph (1823 – 1891)
LEIDY, Joseph (1823 – 1891)
NOTT, Josiah Clark (1804 – 1873)
NOTT, Josiah Clark (1804 – 1873) GLIDDON, George Robbins (1809 – 1857)
MAURY, Louis Ferdinand Alfred (1817 – 1892)
MAURY, Louis Ferdinand Alfred (1817 – 1892) PULSZKY DE CESLFALVA ET LUBÓCZ, Ferenc Aurél (Francis Pulszky) (1814 – 1897) MEIGS, James Aitken (1829 – 1879)
1861A treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army.
SCHUPPERT, Moritz (1817 – 1887)
SCHUPPERT, Moritz (1817 – 1887)
1863Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural: Being also a medical botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants and shrubs.
PORCHER, Francis Peyre (1825 – 1895)
1863Notes and observations on army surgery.
FORMENTO, Felix (1837 – 1907)
1876The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.
STEVENSON, R. Randolph (1834 – 1891)
1900A note on the interval between infecting and secondary cases of yellow fever from the records of yellow fever at Orwood and Taylor, Mississippi, in 1898.
CARTER, Henry Rose (1852 – 1925)
1926Clinical observations on endemic typhus (Brill’s disease) in Southern United States.
MAXCY, Kenneth Fuller (1889 – 1966)
1930​–1933Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.
BLANTON, Wyndham Bolling (1890 – 1960)
1939The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.
COBB, William Montague (1904 – 1990)
1951The health of slaves on southern plantations.
POSTELL, William Dosite (1908 – 1982)
1964​–1971A history of medicine in South Carolina. Vol. 1: 1670-1825. Vol. 2: 1825-1900. Vol. 3: 1900-1970.
WARING, Joseph Ioor Jr. (1897 – 1977)
1969A guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;
KROCHMAL, Arnold (1919 – ) WALTERS, Russell S. DOUGHTY, Richard M.
1982The history of medicine in Alabama.
HOLLEY, Howard Lamar (1914 – 1988)
1984Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.
BRIDGFORTH, Lucie Robertson
1984Medicine in Maryland, 1634-1900,
CARROLL, Douglas
1988Disease and distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd Savitt and James Harvey Young.
YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006) SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – )
1994Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
FONTENOT, Wonda L.
1996Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.
STOUT, Samuel Hollingsworth (1822 – 1903)
STOUT, Samuel Hollingsworth (1822 – 1903) SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
1998Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.
BANKOLE-MEDINA, Katherine
1999Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.
MOSS, Kay K.
2002Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.
FETT, Sharla M.
2003Folk medicine in southern Appalachia.
CAVENDER, Anthony
2004Doctoring the South: Southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century.
STOWE, Steven M.
2006Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
SCHWARTZ, Marie Jenkins (1946 – )
2010Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.
WARD, Thomas J. Jr.
2012Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.
WEINER, Marli F. (1953 – 2009) HOUGH, Mayzie
2012The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
THOMAS, James G. Jr. WILSON, Charles Reagan (1948 – )
2015Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.
ELLIS, John H.