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Medicine and Healing

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
14 and 15 July 1990

CONTENTS

Introduction and Commentary
J. Worth Estes

SECTION I: LAY MEDICINE, ORAL HEALING TRADITIONS

Childbirth Practices among Native American Women of New England and Canada, 1600–1800
Ann Marie Plane

The “Hidden Ones”: Women and Healing in Colonial New England
Patricia A. Watson

Traditional Folk Medicine in Vermont
Jane C. Beck

SECTION II: PATIENTS AND PHYSICIANS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Medicine and Disease in the Diary of Benjamin Walker, Shopkeeper of Boston
Barbara McLean Ward

Sir William Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Medicine in the New York Colony
Wanda Burch

A Household and Its Doctor: A Case Study of Medical Account Books in Colonial America
Robert I. Goler

SECTION III: ITINERANTS, PROSELYTIZERS, POPULARIZERS

The Trials of Dr. Phillip Reade, Seventeenth-Century Itinerant Physician
Andrew V. Rapoza

Itinerant Physicians, Healers, and Surgeon-Dentists in New England and New York, 1720–1825
Peter Benes

Samuel Thomson Rewrites Hippocrates
J. Worth Estes

The Democratic Medicine of Dr. Elias Smith
Michael G. Kenny

SECTION IV: SHAKERS AND THEIR MEDICINE

Medicine and Healing among the Maine Shakers, 1784–1854
David Richards

Blood, Sweat, and Herbs: Health and Medicine at the Harvard Shaker Community, 1820–1855
Margaret Moody Stier

SECTION V: A PARTING OF THE WAYS: FROM LAY TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

Derangement in the Family: The Story of Mary Sewall, 1824–1825
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Obstetrical Practice in South Central Massachusetts from 1834 to 1845
Paul Berman

SECTION VI: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES

A Bibliography of Early American Medicine
J. Worth Estes

Lecture Program, 14 and 15 July 1990
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photo and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors