The Cherokee Physician
Or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor
By Richard Foreman, Jas. W. Mahoney
352 pp., 6 x 9
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-4172-0
Published: May 2018 -
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Published: May 2018 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-5717-0
Published: May 2018
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The volume has intrigued homeopathic practitioners through the years, and attracted the interest of contemporaneous practitioners, including, for instance, one doctor who wrote to the Therapeutic Gazette (September 1881) to enthusiastically endorse its cure for “gravel” through Gravel Weed (Actinomeris Helianthoides). “Gravel” translates to kidney stones in contemporary parlance; modern homeopathic sources say little about the common flower’s use as a diuretic, furnishing one example of knowledge in The Cherokee Physician that has escaped modern evaluation. The book offers, by slant, interesting ethnographic observations, equally unproven.
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About the Authors
Richard Bark Foreman (b. 1779), according to genealogical sources, was born to a Scottish American Indian trader and a Cherokee mother.
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Dr. James W. Mahoney (dates unknown) was a Tennessee-born Irish American who practiced medicine and surgery in East Tennessee before moving to Kentucky and eventually settling in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
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