A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A. Hentz, M.D.University of Virginia Press, 2000 - 646 páginas 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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... early 1858 , Bettie's father , William Booth , died after an illness . Acting on the wishes of Bettie and her mother , Charles moved his family to Quincy that same year and assumed Dr. Booth's practice in partnership ( not always a ...
... early 1860s , when , entering middle age , Hentz wrote more of work than love , more of responsibility than anxiety , and we see his life and his South overtaken by the war.6 When his journal was only a week old , Hentz missed a day's ...
... early diary ; he " rejoiced " when everyone was together . He seems to have been both mentor and companion to his brother Thaddeus and a fond , playful , fatherlike figure to his youngest sister , Callie . He was most attached to Julia ...
... early in their relationship , Fletcher became a little too enterprising , and as Hentz tells it in the autobiography ( there is no hint of this in the diary ) : " I found him out of the way often when I needed him , and on investigation ...
... early — and lasting appreciation for the perils of heavy drinking.27 When the time came to leave school and seek his career , Hentz was fairly confident that he could fit into a community and do the essentials of what a skilled ...
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1845 | 41 |
1846 | 77 |
1847 | 149 |
1848 | 177 |
1849 | 222 |
1850 | 267 |
1851 | 270 |
1852 | 272 |
1853 | 293 |
1854 | 302 |
1857 | 303 |
186O | 320 |
1861 | 353 |
1865 | 369 |
1869 | 388 |