Medicine and healing
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Childbirth practices among Native American Women of the New England and Canada, 1600-1800 -- The "hidden ones": women and healing in Colonial New England -- Traditional folk medicine in Vermont -- Medicine and disease in the diary of Benjamin Walker, shopkeeper of Boston -- Sir William Johnson and Eighteenth-Century medicine in the New Youk Colony -- A household and its doctor: a case study of medical account books in Colonial America -- The trials of Dr. Phillip Reade, Seventeenth-Century itinerant physician -- Itinerant physicians, healers, and surgeon-dentists in New England and New York, 1720-1825 -- Samuel Thomson rewrites hippocrates -- The democratic medicine of Dr. Elias Smith -- Medicine and healing among the Maine shakers, 1784-1854 -- Blood, sweat, and herbs: health and medicine at the Harvard shaker community, 1820-1855 -- Derangement in the family: the story of Mary Sewall, 1824-1825 -- Obstetrical practice in South Central Massachusetts from 1834 to 1845 -- A bibliography of early American medicine.
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