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Disease and distinctiveness in the American South /

Disease and distinctiveness in the American South / edited by Todd L. Savitt and James Harvey Young. - Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1988. - xvii, 211 p. : ill.

Disease as a factor in southern distinctiveness / James O. Breeden -- The impact of malaria on the South / John Duffy -- Yellow fever / Jo Ann Carrigan -- The South's native foreigners / Elizabeth W. Etheridge -- Slave health and southern distinctiveness / Todd L. Savitt -- Patent medicines / James Harvey Young.

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Diseases--History.--Southern States
Public health--History.--Southern States
Disease Outbreaks--history--United States.
Public Health--history--United States.


Southern States--Civilization.