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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... became the place for his medical training in 1846 ; there had been some discussion with his father about attending medical lectures in New Orleans . The Hentzes may have been more comfortable with Louisville because they felt familiar ...
... became engaged just before he headed to Florida with his degree in hopes of quickly finding a place to settle . Although John and Julia Keyes offered to board him at their home in Marianna , twenty - one - year - old Charles decided to ...
... became close friends with the two Coe boys , Jesse , Jr. , and Will , and gained the confidence of patients free and slave . Along with making the rounds of his growing practice , Hentz frequently traveled to Quincy , the Gadsden County ...
... became one of six military medical centers in the area , and Hentz served as an attending physician there throughout the conflict . He came under fire only once , at the battle of Natural Bridge on March 6 , 1865 , an encounter he ...
... became pregnant again almost imme- diately , and a few days after the birth and death of another son in September 1871 , Bettie herself died . Hentz continued to live with his children and to practice medicine in Quincy , and in 1873 he ...
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