Science and Medicine in the Old South - Paperbackby Ronald Numbers (Author), Todd L. Savitt (Author) With a few notable exceptions, historians have tended to ignore the role that science and medicine played in the antebellum South. The fourteen essays in Science and Medicine in the Old South help to redress that neglect by considering scientific and medical developments in the early nineteenth century South and by showing the ways in which the South's scientific and medical activities differed from