Facets

1699

#7965

The dispensary: A poem. In six cantos.

An aggressive criticism of quack medicines, apothecaries who produced them, and physicians who prescribed them.

1772

#154

Von der Physiognomik.

Lavater was the last of the descriptive physiognomists. He expanded the above work into Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe, 1775-78. This was translated into English by H.…

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.

2002

#8011

African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.

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 …