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Consists primarily of papers from the first and second Barnard-Millington symposia, held at Oxford, Miss. in 1982 and at Jackson, Miss. in 1983. Fourteen essays examine the broad background of science in the South and show the ways in which the South's 19th century scientific... Read Full Overview

With a few notable exceptions, historians have tended to ignore the role that science and medicine played in the antebellum South. The fourteen essays in Science and Medicine in the Old South help to redress that neglect by considering scientific and medical developments... Read Full Overview