Title: The health of the country
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: History, Medical geography, Health attitudes, Environmental health, Attitude to Health, Climate, Geography, History of Medicine, 18th Cent, History of Medicine, 19th Cent, History, 18th Century, History, 19th Century, Geomedizin, Gesundheitsvorsorge, Siedler, Frontier and pioneer life
Places: Arkansas, Missouri
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: RA792 .V354 2002