Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments." INSCRIBED, "For---, who may recognize a few roots of modern medicine in our Southern folk heritage," and also SIGNED on title page. Notes, index, appendices, select cited works. xv, 259 pp. ISBN: 1-570032890.