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15 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700] · Alternative & Fringe Medicine [G02.403.750 / M01] · Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
1699
#7965
The dispensary: A poem. In six cantos.
An aggressive criticism of quack medicines, apothecaries who produced them, and physicians who prescribed them.
1803
#13026
A poetical petition against tractorising trumpery and the Perkinistic institution: In four cantos. Most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians.
This medical satire in doggerel verse, which was ostensibly an attack on Perkins' metallic tractors, or "Perkinism" was actually written in support of them. The work was best known for its second and greatly expanded …
1976
#7519
The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.
1977
#9288
Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.
1987
#9900
Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.
1988
#8791
Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
1994
#10090
Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…
1997
#9344
Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.
1998
#12572
Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.
2007
#9976
African American folk healing.
2007
#11171
Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.
2007
#13645
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.
2012
#9977
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
2018
#9792
The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.
2018
#12538
Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.
"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …