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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... 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 ...
... doctors defined their medicine in terms of Southern domestic life , particularly in cases of childbirth . Hentz had kept a careful and unusually detailed set of obstetrical notes , which proved very useful . But I soon was drawn to his ...
... doctor suit him ? Other questions worried and excited him , too , a young man's questions about faith , achievement , and the great world . Charles Hentz began his diary amid these questions and changes as a way of charting their ...
... doctors were literal - minded , working with the physical bedrock of bodies and drugs . They used their hands , their ... doctor in the mid - nineteenth - century South . These themes arise from Hentz's intellectual life , his family ...
... doctors , one whom he liked and one who was not so likable . He hung out his shingle in a " doctors ' row " near the waterfront , and the patients who came to his door were mostly German and Irish immigrants , with an occasional ...
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