Medicine and Healing (1990)

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1990. 

The evolution of traditional, nonacademic, and popular cures and medical practices in New England and contiguous portions of the American Northeast before 1850. Native American and oral healing traditions; colonial medicine; itinerants, proselytizers, and popularizers; Shaker medicine; and the transition to early professional practices. Bibliography. 200 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps. Click here to view Table of Contents.