A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A. Hentz, M.D.University of Virginia Press, 2000 - 646 من الصفحات As a physician practicing in the rural South in the years leading up to and through the Civil War, Charles Arnould Hentz (1827-1894) lived in the midst of enormous changes in southern society and medicine. A Southern Practice includes the diary that Hentz kept for more than twenty years, beginning with the river journey his family took from Ohio to Alabama when Charles was eighteen. This vividly depicted trip--people, places, and sensory details--sets the stage for Hentz's record of his life through middle age: his apprenticeship and decision to pursue a medical career while a youth in Alabama; maturing as both a man and a doctor while at school in Kentucky; and establishing a general practice--and a large family--in the rough society of the Florida Panhandle. This edition also includes Hentz's autobiography, written at the end of his life, in which he reviews his past as doctor, southerner, and family man. Taken together, Hentz's diary and autobiography dramatize with unusual clarity and realism the demanding work of a physician in an age before medicine could reliably cure patients. The rural doctor's work plunged him into the center of his community's life. He attended patients enslaved and free; worked one day with the challenges of childbirth, another with desperately sick children; treated the victims of stabbings and shootings; and faced the looming threat of epidemic fever. By telling what he liked to call his "professional stories," Hentz also gives a relatively rare picture of the feelings and experiences of a middle-class southern white man. His work, religious faith, and social relations with neighbors, slaves, and strangers are described. In their frankness, sharp observation, and good humor, Hentz's writings illuminate nineteenth-century medicine in its full social setting, thus revealing a fresh portrait of the Old South. |
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... Bettie had fallen in love . Two years later , in April , Charles and Bettie were married , and during the next four years their lives were marked by sharp transitions in their families , the making and unmaking of the generations ...
... Bettie gave birth to Mary Sibley ( Mollie ) in September 1859 ( who would die of illness at age five ) and four more ... Bettie as a wedding gift by Bettie's father . The other two women might have been Eliza and Martha , also given as ...
... Bettie returned to Quincy a year later . Although Bettie's health continued to worsen , Charles Arnould Hentz , Jr. , was born in September 1870. Bettie became pregnant again almost imme- diately , and a few days after the birth and ...
... Bettie an admirable housekeeper . Everything goes like clock work . And : little Sallie Lee , the darling , the jewel , the life & sunbeam of the house . " 15 In short , Charles seems to have been eager to care for her , and compared to ...
... Bettie to shoot . None of these things are highlighted or expanded upon in the diary , however . Hentz chose to look askance at the coming of war , hoping his life would absorb whatever changes it brought . He does much the same thing ...
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