The health of the country
Subtitle: how American settlers understood themselves and their land
By: by Conevery Bolton Valenčius
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Medical geography -- Arkansas -- History -- 19th century; Medical geography -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century; Environmental health -- Arkansas -- History -- 19th century; Environmental health -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century; Health attitudes -- Arkansas -- History -- 19th century; Health attitudes -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
Description: "The Health of the Country is the first book to show how settlers made sense of uncharted land. Their primary concern was to save themselves from the painful, fatal, disabling ailments that are as much a part of American history as cowboys and wagon trains." "Primary sources from this tumultuous period show settlers using science, intuition, observation and popular wisdom to evaluate whether a particular locale would sicken them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-372) and index