Popular Print and Popular Medicine
Thomas A. Horrocks
University of Massachusetts Press, 2008
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781558496576
- ISBN-10
- 1558496572
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Year
- 2008
- Publication date
- 2008-07-16
- Pages
- 224
- Dimensions
- 220x147x17
- Weight
- 358