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Medicine among the early Mormonsarticle 1959 • Noall, Claire Augusta
Mormons • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source concerns early Mormon attitudes toward medicine. The author discusses the attitudes of Joseph Smith toward doctors and medicines, the change of attitude over time, and some notable Mormon doctors and midwives....Superstitions, customs, and prescriptions of Mormon midwivesarticle 1944 • Noall, Claire Augusta
Mormons • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is concerned with the superstitions and herbal cures of Mormon midwives. The medicinal treatments are not necessarily connected with childbirth because midwives also served as general medical practitioners....Mormon midwivesarticle 1942 • Noall, Claire Augusta
Mormons • North America > Southwest and Basin
There are remarkably few specifics on the practice of midwifery among the Mormons in this source. Instead it consists of life histories for fourteen midwives spanning nearly a century, providing something of an account of life in early Utah. The auth...