Popular Print and Popular Medicine : Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America

by Thomas A. Horrocks

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

ISBN-10 1558496572

ISBN-13 9781558496576

Publisher University of Massachusetts Press

Imprint University of Massachusetts Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 30th, 2008

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 358 grams

Dimensions 22.00 x 14.70 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Social & cultural history Popular medicine & health

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Demonstrates that the almanac was a leading source of health information in America prior to the Civil War. This book contends that the almanac was an integral component of a complicated, fragmented, semi-vernacular health literature of the period, and that the genre played a leading role in disseminating astrological health advice.

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