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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... thing , " he wrote self - instructively . But then he looked at what he had written and backed away : of course he did not mean to imply that his diary " can make me a great mind . " Reality was more nuanced and conditional . If not ...
... things that he records . His world was very much that of Joseph Baldwin's " flush times , " all high - rolling and make - do . But Hentz's vision has none of Baldwin's sense of being the master of ceremonies . In some ways Hentz's ...
... thing I don't know but it is fortunate to possess such a disposition as it makes many friends and harms no one ... things . " Thank God for such sunshine . " So , too , his hunting of small game , especially birds , is something he ...
... thing else . All told , he was more curious to witness the wonderful variety in social relations or in Nature than he was concerned about the exact state of his soul . Twice , however , he remarks on times when his faith was at issue ...
... thing like relief . “ There is a longing for better things , " he wrote in 1857 . " For holiness & more nearness to God . " When he reached middle age , his faith seems to have been at least as important for being a bond to his com ...
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