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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... patients . The rural doctor's work plunged him into the cen- ter of his community's life . He attended patients enslaved and free ; worked one ( continued on back flap ) A SOUTHERN PRACTICE The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A ...
... patients who came to his door were mostly German and Irish immigrants , with an occasional " burgher , " lawyer , and fellow physician . During these mostly satisfying months of learning his profession in a new way , however , his ...
... patients free and slave . Along with making the rounds of his growing practice , Hentz frequently traveled to Quincy , the Gadsden County seat where John and Julia had moved , some fifty miles east of Marianna and about twenty miles ...
... patient with his memories and allows them to come forth with scenes , dialogue , and place - schoolgirls singing , immigrants in wooden shoes , a bloody knifing at the local doggery , inspiring sermons by warm - blooded Methodists , the ...
... patients is the closest to criticism that Charles comes . In the diary it is clear that Nicholas's rest- lessness allowed for little intimacy , although Charles expresses only grati- tude toward his father . When Nicholas became ...
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1848 | 177 |
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