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Farm, Field and Fireside: Health and Hygiene

A guide to health and wellness topics in the Farm, Field and Fireside collection of farm periodicals. Supplements the main Farm, Field and Fireside guide.

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1. John J. Fry, The Farm Press, Reform, and Rural Change, 1895-1920 (New York: Routledge, 2005), 142.

2. Albert Lowther Demaree, The American Agricultural Press: 1819-1860 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), 146.

3. Richard T. Farrell, "Advice to Farmers: the Content of Agricultural Newspapers, 1860-1910," Agricultural History 51.1 (1977): 211; Kim Chuppa-Cornell, "Filling a Vacuum: Women's Health Information in Good Housekeeping's Articles and Advertisements, 1920-1965," The Historian 67.3 (2005): 473.

Disease

1. Steven M. Stowe, "Health and Disease," in Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Paul Finkelman (New York: Charles Scibner's Sons, 2001), 2:18.

2. Michael R. Haines, "Death rate, by cause: 1900–1998: Table Ab929-951" in Historical Statistics of the United States, Earliest Times to the Present: Millennial Edition, ed. by Susan B. Carter et al. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 1:463-466.

3. Kim Allen Scott, "Plague on the Homefront: Arkansas and the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 47.4 (1988): 317.

4. John Duffy, "Influenza," in Dictionary of American History, ed. Stanley I. Kutler, 3d ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003), 4:354.

5. Geri Clark, "The Battle against Tuberculosis: Robert Koch, the Development of TB Sanitariums, and the Enactment of Public Health Measures," in Science and Its Times, eds. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer (Detroit: Gale, 2000), 5:308.

6. Vincent Tompkins, "The Tuberculosis Movement," in American Decades: 1900-1909, (Detroit: Gale, 1996), 388.

7. George D. Joseph, "Tuberculosis," in Dictionary of American History (see note 4), 8:236.

8. Demaree, American Agricultural Press, 173-174.

9. William D. Johnston, "Tuberculosis," in Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease, ed. Kenneth F. Kiple (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 341.

Women's Health

1. Chuppa-Cornell, "Filling a Vacuum," 473.

2. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman, "Comstock Law of 1873," in West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2d ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2005), 3:67.

Child Rearing

1. Marilyn Irvin Holt, Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995), 118.

2. N.W., "The Kingdom of Motherhood," Prairie Farmer 67, no. 11 (March 16, 1895): 11.

3. "Our Home Club," Farmer's Wife 14, no. 8 (December, 1909): 6.

4. Holt, Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 109.

5. Dennis Allen, "Physical Culture," in Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Detroit: MacMillan, 2007), 3:1141.

6. "Hygienic Character of Soups," Prairie Farmer 49, no. 48 (November 30, 1878): 3.

Mental Health

1. A Physician, "Good Health: Hygiene on the Farm," Prairie Farmer 43, no. 12 (March 23, 1872): 3.

2. William E. Wingfield, "Mental Illness" in Dictionary of American History ed. Stanley I. Kutler, 3d ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003), 3:314.