Title:
Medicine and healing
Author:
Benes,Peter, editor
Subjects:
Childbirth-Native American
Medicine-Lay
Physcians-18th Century
Medicine-Shaker
Medicine-Lay
Physcians-18th Century
Medicine-Shaker
Object ID:
RU293 Be43
Object Name:
Book
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
Boston University
Publication Place:
Boston, Massachusetts
Pubication Date:
1992
Collection:
Eva Butler Library
Summary:
A collections of papers presented at Deerfield, Massachusetts on 14 & 15 July 1990 to bring Isaac Calcott and scores of other early American healers out of obsecurity. These papers address traditional, nonacademic, and popular cures and medical practices in New England and portions of the American Northeast before 1850.