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Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book (Paperback)) (1st Edition) by Thomas A. Horrocks Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 1-55849-657-2 / 1558496572 ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-657-6 / 9781558496576 In this innovative study of the relationship between popular print and popular attitudes toward the body, health, and disease in antebellum America, Thomas A. Horrocks focuses our attention on a publication long neglected by scholars―the almanac. Approaching his subject as both a historian of the bo |