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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... moved to Chapel Hill , North Carolina , where Nicholas was professor of modern languages at the state university . Charles was born in Chapel Hill on May 28 , 1827 , their second child but the eldest to survive childhood.1 During the ...
... moved with her parents to Newport , Kentucky , immedi- ately across the river from Cincinnati ; matchmaking , in fact , seems to have been on Drake's mind . Moreover , Charles figured that he could share quar- ters with John Keyes , who ...
... moved , some fifty miles east of Marianna and about twenty miles west of the state capital at Tallahassee . Late that year Charles's parents ( Nicholas now " an invalid " ) came to reside with the Keyeses , and it was during this time ...
... moved to Brevard County , Florida , in 1881 , where once again . Charles attempted to start a citrus plantation , but they returned to Quincy for the last time a few years later . Cornelia contracted a systemic , weaken- ing illness ...
... moved to make a melancholy comparison of youth's " bright visions " with " the sober & quiet & . . disappointed experiences of life . " Yet this was not the final disposition of his words . Every time he put pen to the pages he made a ...
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