The Western Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences, 1829, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from The Western Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences, 1829, Vol. 2 Analectic. 1. On the Valves of the Pulmonary veins - 2. Microscopic researches upon the intimate structure of Animal Tissues. - 3. Case of disease of the brain, illustrating the functions of the Fifth pair of Nerves. - 4. Case in which there was a diminution of sensibility on one side, without loss of the power of motion; and a loss of muscular power on the other side without any diminution of sensibility.-5. On the efl'ects of the division or organic lesion of the Fifth pair of Nerves - 6. Vision after the destruction of the optic nerves.-7. On the eti'ects of galvanism on the nerves - pp. 596 - 603. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







Sacred Capital


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How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic’s fastest growing religious movement and its largest voluntary association. Following the contours of settler expansion, the Methodist Episcopal Church also quickly became the largest denomination in the early American West. With Sacred Capital, Hunter Price resituates the Methodist Episcopal Church as a settler-colonial institution at the convergence of “the Methodist Age” and Jefferson’s “Empire of Liberty.” Price offers a novel interpretation of the Methodist Episcopal Church as a network through which mostly white settlers exchanged news of land and jobs and facilitated financial transactions. Benefiting from Indigenous dispossession and removal policies, settlers made selective, strategic use of the sacred and the secular in their day-to-day interactions to advance themselves and their interests. By analyzing how Methodists acted as settlers while identifying as pilgrims, Price illuminates the ways that ordinary white Americans fulfilled Jefferson’s vision of an Empire of Liberty while reinforcing the inequalities at its core.







A Long Ride in Texas


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John was a medical Doctor, geoglist, and botanist who traveled from New Orleans to Texas 1839,surveying the Texas Hill country for a group of for businessmen searching for the lost San Saba Silver mine.




Doctoring the South


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Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading deeply in the personal letters, daybooks, diaries, bedside notes, and published writings of doctors, Stowe illuminates an entire world of sickness and remedy, suffering and hope, and the deep ties between medicine and regional culture. In a distinct American region where climate, race and slavery, and assumptions about "southernness" profoundly shaped illness and healing in the lives of ordinary people, Stowe argues that southern doctors inhabited a world of skills, medicines, and ideas about sickness that allowed them to play moral, as well as practical, roles in their communities. Looking closely at medical education, bedside encounters, and medicine's larger social aims, he describes a "country orthodoxy" of local, social medical practice that highly valued the "art" of medicine. While not modern in the sense of laboratory science a century later, this country orthodoxy was in its own way modern, Stowe argues, providing a style of caregiving deeply rooted in individual experience, moral values, and a consciousness of place and time.







Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1


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A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations.




Rare Books and Collections of the Reynolds Historical Library


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Includes the Reynolds Library's main collection, Daniel Drake Collection, Dental Collection, and its manuscripts and incunabula.