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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... young Southerner leaving childhood behind , learning his pro- fession , marrying and starting a family , and striving for satisfaction and faith amid a swirl of changing personal fortunes and the larger social transfor- mations that led ...
... young's man's tale of starting out in the world . The second encompasses the late 1850s and early 1860s , when , entering middle age , Hentz wrote more of work than love , more of responsibility than anxiety , and we see his life and ...
... young Hentz was not altogether certain about the merit of " spreading death and desolation among the social circles of the beasts and birds . " He was not a very good shot , but he kept at it ; in middle age he told himself that he ...
... young practitioner , of course , though he rarely mentions medical literature later on . He some- times takes a playful literary turn in his diary and autobiography - making a pun or , especially , spoofing lofty prose . And like many ...
... young Charles in front of the girls if he did his lessons imperfectly . More darkly , and along the same lines , Nicholas was fiercely , sometimes violently , jealous of Charles's mother . On one oc- casion when Charles was a boy ...
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