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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Australian Folklore
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Herbal and Magical Medicine
Author: James Kirkland
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822312178
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822312178
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III
The Tree Dispensary
Author: Christina Stapley
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1913504743
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
An exploration of the history, folklore and medicinal uses of thirty exotic trees, beautifully illustrated with the author's own photographs. From Cacao to Eucalyptus, and Almond through to Frankincense, Christina Stapley takes us on a journey through North America, Oman, the Mediterranean, China and the Caribbean. The Tree Dispensary reflects a deep and thorough appreciation for trees - the author has studied them for many years as a herb historian and practising herbalist. Of the trees mentioned in the book, she has experience of growing around a third of them herself, including several from China, and has travelled around the world to study the rest. The book is categorised into geographical areas and looks at the trees which grow in each location. Each of the thirty chapters looks at a different and unique tree, along with its cultivation, cookery, foraging, history, botany, medicinal use and mythology. While she was travelling, Christina encountered connections between the trees and cultures in which they grew, and this provides a rich and moving historical thread throughout the book. The Tree Dispensary: Exotic Trees is the companion volume to Stapley's previous work which explored the history, herbalism and uses of native European trees.
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1913504743
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
An exploration of the history, folklore and medicinal uses of thirty exotic trees, beautifully illustrated with the author's own photographs. From Cacao to Eucalyptus, and Almond through to Frankincense, Christina Stapley takes us on a journey through North America, Oman, the Mediterranean, China and the Caribbean. The Tree Dispensary reflects a deep and thorough appreciation for trees - the author has studied them for many years as a herb historian and practising herbalist. Of the trees mentioned in the book, she has experience of growing around a third of them herself, including several from China, and has travelled around the world to study the rest. The book is categorised into geographical areas and looks at the trees which grow in each location. Each of the thirty chapters looks at a different and unique tree, along with its cultivation, cookery, foraging, history, botany, medicinal use and mythology. While she was travelling, Christina encountered connections between the trees and cultures in which they grew, and this provides a rich and moving historical thread throughout the book. The Tree Dispensary: Exotic Trees is the companion volume to Stapley's previous work which explored the history, herbalism and uses of native European trees.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages :
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
A Guide to Australian Folklore
Author: Gwenda Davey
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An alphabetically arranged list of terms, allusions, characters, events and places that constitutes the folklore of Australia, past and present.
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An alphabetically arranged list of terms, allusions, characters, events and places that constitutes the folklore of Australia, past and present.
Bill Wannan's Folk Medicine
Author: Bill Wannan
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006128953
Category : Traditional medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006128953
Category : Traditional medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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The National union catalog, 1968-1972
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Australian Tradition
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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