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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... Cincinnati a year later . In 1834 they shipped down to Florence , Alabama , and yet another academy . Then came the move to Tuscaloosa , which placed Charles in certain circumstances that strongly influenced him as he began to write the ...
... Cincinnati . And no doubt Dr. Daniel Drake's position on the Louisville faculty was a key consideration . Drake not only was a family friend from the Hentzes ' Cincinnati days , he also had established a prominent career as a medical ...
... Cincinnati ( where Drake re- cently had relocated ) attracted Charles for more than one reason . It would get him out of " whiskey - soaked " Port Jackson . And he would be near Betty , who had moved with her parents to Newport ...
... Cincinnati ; and Some of Its Pioneer Citizens ( Cincinnati , 1855 ) . Drake was Harriet Beecher Stowe's physician in Cincinnati in the 1830s , and she described him as having " a tall , rectangular , perpendicular sort of body , as ...
... ( Cincinnati , 1820 ) ; a more colloquial Drake is seen in " Traveling Letters from the Senior Editor , " Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery , 2d ser . , 8 ( Sept. 1847 ) : 263-74 . See also Henry D. Shapiro and Zane L. Miller , eds ...
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