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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... mother's suggestion in 1844 that he put his appren- ticeship aside for a year and attend the University of Alabama . He did well academically and used his year to mull over the prospect of becoming a physician . Then , after six months ...
... mother came to live with him , while Nicholas remained with John and Julia , who had moved once again , this time to St. Andrews Bay on the Gulf . At about this time Charles's youngest sister Callie also came to live with the Keyes ...
... mother sat down together at the academy and talked about his future : “ I could go in the old Institute building . . . & point out the place where we were sitting together , " he writes . This happened , I saw it , and I could show you ...
... mother remarks on how nine - year - old Charles and his father enjoyed tramping the woods . In fact , Charles " had rather collect insects than go fishing , for that was only an amusement , while the former combined instruction with ...
... mother's praise . He hopes he is worthy . Even so , in diary and autobiography Charles does not linger over Caroline and Nicholas ; he approaches them , then sails away . Charles's relation to his parents ' marriage seems to hold an ...
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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 |