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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... , and a sketch of Hentz's office 249 First page of manuscript autobiography 402 Graves of Hentz and his second wife , Cornelia 539 Hentz's last home , Quincy , Florida 604 Acknowledgments I first came across Charles Hentz in 1986 when.
... wife Lisa Gershkoff - Stowe has helped me make a home in all the ways that matter , and took time from her own work to squint at the Hentz manuscripts ( what is that word ? ) and read my prose when I was least sure of it . My children ...
... wife and not long before the death of the Hentzes ' infant daughter Caroline . A year later , in early 1858 , Bettie's father , William Booth , died after an illness . Acting on the wishes of Bettie and her mother , Charles moved his ...
... wife Sarah Ann , both of whom had been given to Charles and Bettie as a wedding gift by Bettie's father . The other two women might have been Eliza and Martha , also given as gifts in 1854 " to serve as nurses & little house maids ...
... wife and children , perhaps in part because the tensions in his childhood made family relationships dif- ficult to include within the descriptive , objectifying style he brought to his writing . Whatever the reason , and whatever his ...
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