Facets

1998 CE

#9642

"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

2015 CE

#10275

A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.

"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…

1972 CE

#9021

A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.

Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who cam…

1822 CE

#10751

A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: Containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is added an introduction to his New Guide to Health, or Botanic Family Physician containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison &c.

Thomson issued this introductory work shortly before publication of his New Guide. Three issues appeared in 1822: one with 180 pages, another with 182 pages including testimonials, and a 204 page issue with the introd…

2007 CE

#9976

African American folk healing.

1977 CE

#13369

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

1774 CE

#6451.90

An oration…containing an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America; and a comparative view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations.

Rush was the first American physician to publish a detailed study of native American medicine. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1946 CE

#8634

Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.

2011 CE

#9708

Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.

2015 CE

#10341

Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.

This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the…

1977 CE

#7921

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

2012 CE

#8799

Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.

2008 CE

#12097

Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.

"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…

1983 CE

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

2016 CE

#12727

Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.

"Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close…

1996 CE

#7002

Encyclopedia of native American healing.

1991 CE

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

1930 CE

#9846

Erwin Bälz: Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan. Tagebücher, Briefe, Berichte hrsg. von Toku Bälz.

Bälz was personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern western medicine in Japan. "Bälz taught more than 800 students in Western medicine during his tenure at the Tokyo Imperial …

1935 CE

#8616

Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.

1928 CE

#10639

Folklore of the teeth.

2009 CE

#12095

Forgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.

"Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19…

1973 CE

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

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

1988 CE

#10674

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

1998 CE

#12779

Healers and healing in early modern Europe.

"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…

2014 CE

#12722

Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.

"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…

1994 CE

#8864

Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.

"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …

2015 CE

#8790

Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.

2004 CE

#9899

Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.

1823 CE

#8798

Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.

Hunter claimed that as a child he had been captured by the Cherokee before they came to Texas. He adopted the name of an English benefactor, John Dunn, and later added the name "Hunter" given by the Indians because of…

1979 CE

#8128

Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.

The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …

1746 CE

#8869

Medicina Britannica; or, a treatise on such physical plants as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens of Great-Britain: Containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses. Together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli. Adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned. To which are added, three indexes: The first containing the England and Latin names of the plants treated of: The second of the diseases, and their remedies: The third to the notes.

Short focused his book on the medical uses of plants readily available in England. Many of the plants recommended in the traditional herbal literature were difficult to find in England. Digital facsimile from the Biod…

1932 CE

#6460

Medicine among the American Indians.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.

1964 CE

#8652

Medicine and custom in Africa.

1971 CE

#6467.2

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

See also No. 6448

1956 CE

#8651

Medicine and magic of the Mashona.

1958 CE

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

1924 CE

#13374

Medicine, magic and religion. [Edited] with a preface by G. Elliot Smith.

Fitzpatrick Lectures 1915-16. Originally published in Lancet , 94, 59–65, 117–23.

1961 CE

#10855

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

1939 CE

#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…

1822 CE

#6988

New guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author.

The "Bible" of Thomsonism or "Thomsonian medicine", which employed botanical remedies, often based on native American medicines. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1886 CE

#7708

Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.

The first American contribution to paleopathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1988 CE

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1971 CE

#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…

1908 CE

#6455.1

Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1871 CE

#172

Primitive culture: Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom. 2 vols.

The standard work on primitive religion for many years. Tylor approached his subject from the point of view of psychology, exploring the nature of belief in spirits, omens, magic, etc. His work has important ties with…

1646 CE

#10032

Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths.

In this widely read work of popular science that underwent six editions in Browne's lifetime Browne debunked numerous quack cures, etc. Full text from quod.lib.umich.edu at this link. Digital facsimile of the 4th edit…

2010 CE

#7465

Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine: The telling touch. Wih an annotated translation of the Memoir of Chunyu Yi (Canggong zhuan) in the 105th chapter of The Records of the Historian (Shi ji, ca 86 BCE) by Sima Quian, and an anthropological analysis of the first ten medical case histories.

1937 CE

#10672

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

1997 CE

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were…

1891 CE

#9888

Scatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal.

Digital facsimile of the 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated in to German as: Der Unrat in Sitte, Brauch, Glauben und Gewohnheitrecht der Völker, von John Gregory Bourke. Verdeutscht u…