Facets

1936

#6463

La médecine chez les peuples primitifs.

1937

#6464

Medicina aborigen americana.

1937

#6465

Heilkunde und Volkstum auf Bali.

1937

#10672

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

1937

#13501

Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.

1939

#6465.1

Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection

Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…

1939

#13305

Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.

1941

#6466

Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.

1941

#6467

La medicina primitiva.

1942

#9284

A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.

In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…

1946

#8634

Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.

1946

#8741

The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.

The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…

1947

#6629

Magic and healing.

1948

#11620

Urological oddities.

1951 –1961

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.

1952

#6546

Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"

1952

#10851

Religious dances in the Christian church and in popular medicine. Translated from the Swedish by E. Classen.

1952

#13306

Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).

1956

#8651

Medicine and magic of the Mashona.

1958

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

1959

#10753

Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.

A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…

1961

#6643.1

The natural history of quackery.

1961

#10855

Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.

1961

#12413

The toadstool millionaires.

Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.

1963

#6549

The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.

1963

#7868

Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.

Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …

1964

#8652

Medicine and custom in Africa.

1966

#12410

Te Rongoa Maori: Maori medicine.

"Arriving in Kaikohe (in the Far North) as a pharmacist he [the author] "passed into a new world as far as medicine was concerned." He found that customers made their own "concoctions" and were under the influence of …

1967

#6643.2

The medical messiahs. A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America.

1970

#5019.10

Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.

Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.

1970

#6467.1

American Indian medicine.

Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.

1971

#6467.2

Medicine and ethnology. Selected essays by Erwin Ackerknecht. Edited by H. M. Koelbing and H. H. Walser.

See also No. 6448

1971

#10673

Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.

1971

#10857

Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.

"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…

1971

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

1971

#10871

Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios

1972

#9279

Making the cure: A look at Irish folk medicine.

1973

#2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.

1973

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

1975

#9250

Medizin und Magie. Heilkunde und Geheimlehre des islamischen Zeitalters. [Medizingeschichtliche Miniaturen 1].

1976

#7519

The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.

1977

#7921

Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.

1977

#9288

Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.

1977

#13369

African folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.

1978

#10869

Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.

1979

#9158

Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.

"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…

1980

#6374.9

Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.

A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.

1980

#9147

Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.

Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...à …

1980

#9747

Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.

1980

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.