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  1. Chimborazo, Pellagra, and Hoodoo Doctors: Health in the Antebellum and Early Modern South
  2. Philip C. Kolin
  3. pp. 6-11
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  1. This Place of Death: Environment as Weapon in the American Civil War*
  2. Margaret Humphreys
  3. pp. 12-36
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  1. The North vs. the South: Conditions at Civil War Hospitals
  2. Barbra Mann Wall, Kathleen Rogers, Ann Kutney-Lee
  3. pp. 37-55
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  1. Ill and Injured Children on Antebellum Slave Plantations: A Dangerous Childhood
  2. Marie Jenkins Schwartz
  3. pp. 56-69
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  1. Medical Racism’s Poison Pen: The Toxic World of Dr. Henry Ramsay (1821-1856)
  2. Stephen C. Kenny
  3. pp. 70-96
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  1. Conjuring a Cure: Folk Healing and Modern Medicine in Charles Chesnutt’s Fiction
  2. Gretchen Long
  3. pp. 97-113
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  1. “Frauds,” “Filth Parties,” “Yeast Fads,” and “Black Boxes”: Pellagra and Southern Pride, 1906-2003*
  2. Michael A. Flannery
  3. pp. 114-140
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  1. “I’ll be blamed ef I hanker after making my bowels a brick-yard”: Dirt Eating in the Antebellum and Early Modern South
  2. Deanne Stephens Nuwer
  3. pp. 141-155
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  1. Two-Headed Medicine: Hoodoo Workers, Conjure Doctors, and Zora Neale Hurston
  2. Billy Middleton
  3. pp. 156-175
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  1. Black Comfort: A Brief History of African American Hospitals and Clinics in the Mississippi Delta in the Early Modern South
  2. Jianqing Zheng
  3. pp. 176-189
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  1. 1896 Typhoid Fever Outbreak in Oxford, Mississippi: A New Letter from James Ezekiel Edmonds
  2. Jennifer Ford
  3. pp. 190-198
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  1. Nurses’ Training in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the 1940s and Early 1950s
  2. David Tisdale
  3. pp. 199-202
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  1. Charleston, South Carolina, 1864, and: Pearl River, Louisiana, 1859
  2. Katie Bickham
  3. pp. 204-205
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  1. when the Sisters of Mercy were nurses during the civil war
  2. Lou Ella Hickman
  3. p. 206
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  1. Miss Scarlett at the Atlanta Train Yard
  2. Philip C. Kolin
  3. p. 207
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  1. The Purple Virus
  2. James Torrens SJ
  3. p. 208
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  1. Remedy: Sassafras Tea, and: Remedy: Onion
  2. Lenard D. Moore
  3. pp. 209-210
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  1. Dreaming Beside the River: The Mississippi as American Vernacular
  2. Mark Stephen Burrows
  3. pp. 211-224
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  1. African American Haiku: Cultural Visions ed. by John Zheng (review)
  2. Jerry W. Ward Jr.
  3. pp. 225-227
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  1. Defining the Delta: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta ed. by Janelle Collins (review)
  2. Daniel R. Maher
  3. pp. 228-230
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  1. Conversations with Barry Hannah ed. by James G. Thomas (review)
  2. Jay Watson
  3. pp. 231-233
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  1. Glenn T. Harper (1937-2015)
  3. pp. 234-235
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  3. pp. 236-238
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