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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... River to Cincinnati a year later . In 1834 they shipped down to Florence , Alabama , and yet another academy . Then came the move to Tuscaloosa , which placed Charles in certain circumstances that strongly influenced him as he began to ...
... River about twenty - five miles east of Marianna . For Charles , his stay in Port Jackson commenced amid romantic hopes for the purity of a simple life , the prospect of working hard to support a bride , and his inten- tion to do good ...
... River in eastern Florida , near Palatka , where Charles tried his hand at growing vegetables and citrus fruit . But the ven- ture did not work out , and he and Bettie returned to Quincy a year later . Although Bettie's health continued ...
... rivers . All were cotton - choked arteries linking the region to the greater South . The state had 135 physicians in 1850 ... River bottoms . " 29 Although living in a place where men made fortunes -- some of these men were his patients ...
... River Valley ( Tuscaloosa , Ala . , 1993 ) ; Miles Kenan Womack , Gadsden : A Florida County in Word and Picture ( Dallas , 1976 ) ; J. Randall Stanley , History of Gadsden County ( Quincy , Fla . , 1948 ) ; Gerrell H. Shofner , Jackson ...
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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 |