Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America

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Demonstrates that the almanac was a leading source of health information in America prior to the Civil War. This book contends that the almanac was an integral component of a complicated, fragmented, semi-vernacular health literature of the period, and that the genre played a leading role in disseminating astrological health advice.