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24 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700] · Africa & Middle East [Z01.058.500] · Alternative & Fringe Medicine [G02.403.750 / M01]

2013 CE

#7926

A handbook of African traditional healing approaches & research practices. Edited by Njoki Wane and Erica Neeganagwedgin.

1951 CE–1961 CE

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

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

1977 CE

#13369

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

2000 CE

#8030

African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.

1987 CE

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1977 CE

#7921

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

2007 CE

#9737

Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.

Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.

2014 CE

#9912

Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.

"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…

1988 CE

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

2008 CE

#7925

Healing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.

2015 CE

#8790

Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.

2004 CE

#8312

Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.

The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…

1971 CE

#10673

Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.

2003 CE

#8506

Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.

The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…

2018 CE

#9711

Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.

Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…

1964 CE

#8652

Medicine and custom in Africa.

1956 CE

#8651

Medicine and magic of the Mashona.

1975 CE

#9250

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

1941 CE

#6466

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

1937 CE

#10672

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

1959 CE

#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…

1870 CE

#10567

The religious system of the Amazulu. Izinyanga zokubula; or, divination, as existing among the Amazulu, in their own words, with a translation into English, and notes.

Callaway, a surgeon turned missionary and bishop of the Diocese of Natal, may have been the first to publish actual transcriptions of Zulu divination, including indigenous medical beliefs and practices, in their origi…

1985 CE

#9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.

1909 CE

#8797

Zulu medicine and medicine-men.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.