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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine

Exhibiting 125 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1666 CEDe medicina Danorum domestica dissertationes x.
BARTHOLIN, Thomas (1616 – 1680)
BARTHOLIN, Thomas (1616 – 1680)
1998 CE"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.
ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
HELFAND, William H. (1926 – 2018)
HELFAND, William H. (1926 – 2018)
2015 CEA Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
WILLIER, Russell
YOUNG, David Earl
YOUNG, David Earl
ROGERS, Robert Dale
ROGERS, Robert Dale
2011 CEA Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition: Text, translation and commentary.
CLARK, Patricia Ann
CLARK, Patricia Ann
1703 CEA description of the Western Islands of Scotland.: Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion and customs of the inhabitants, particularly of their druids, heathen temples, monasteries, churches, chappels, antiquities, monuments, forts, caves, and other curiosities of art and nature. Of their admirable and expeditious way of curing most diseases by simples of their own product. A particular account of the second sight, or faculty of forseeing things to come, by way of vision, so common among them. A brief hint of methods to improve trade in that country, both by sea and land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places, and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is added a brief description of the Isles of Orkney, and Schetland.
MARTIN, Martin ( – 1718)
MARTIN, Martin ( – 1718)
2013 CEA handbook of African traditional healing approaches & research practices. Edited by Njoki Wane and Erica Neeganagwedgin.
WANE, Njoki NEEGANAGWEDGIN, Erica
1951 CE​–1961 CEA history of medicine. Vol. l - 2
SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
1931 CEA modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.
GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
1942 CEA study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.
TANTAQUIDGEON, Gladys Lola (1899 – 2005)
2007 CEAfrican American folk healing.
MITCHEM, Stephanie
MITCHEM, Stephanie
2000 CEAfrican traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.
NEUWINGER, Hans Dieter
1987 CEAfro-Caribbean folk medicine.
LAGUERRE, Michael S. (1943 – )
1970 CEAmerican Indian medicine.
VOGEL, Virgil J. (1918 – 1994)
1774 CEAn 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, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
1946 CEAncient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.
ELLIS, E. S.
1981 CEAnglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.
MEANEY, Audrey Lilian (1931 – )
1952 CEAnglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960) GRATTAN, John Henry Grafton (1878 – 1951)
1899 CEAnimal and plant lore collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk. Edited and annotated by Fanny D. Bergen.
BERGEN, Fanny Dickerson (1846 – 1924)
1985 CEAphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.
TABERNER, Peter V.
1990 CEAztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO, Bernard R.
ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO, Bernard R.
1992 CEBecoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.
MERKUR, Daniel (1952 – 2016)
1998 CEBlack folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.
WATSON, Wilbur H. (1938 – 1998)
1977 CEBody and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.
NGUBANE, Harriet (1929 – 2007)
2014 CEBorder medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.
HENDRICKSON, Brett
1963 CEBotanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
COLDEN, Jane (1724 – 1766) RICKETT, Harold William (1896 – 1989) HALL, Elizabeth Cornelia (1898 – 1989)
1838 CEBotica general de los remedios esperimentados. Que á beneficio del público se reimprime por su original en Cadiz, en Sonoma, de la alta California: Por M. G. V.
ANONYMOUS
1977 CEChildbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.
FRANKEL, Barbara
1992 CEContraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.
RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
1997 CECoyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.
MEHL-MADRONA, Lewis E. (1954 – )
1794 CEDemostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-España, especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso ...
BALMIS, Francisco Javier de (1793 – 1819)
1898 CEDie Heilpflanzen der verschiedenen Volker und Zeiten.
DRAGENDORFF, Georg Johann Noel (1836 – 1898)
DRAGENDORFF, Georg Johann Noel (1836 – 1898)
1893 CEDie Medicin der Naturvölker. Ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin.
BARTELS, Maximillian Carl August (1843 – 1904)
1908 CEDie volkmedizinische Organotherapie und ihr Verhältnis zum Kultopfer.
HOEFLER, Max (Höfler) (1848 – 1914)
2000 CEEarly English charms, plant lore, and healing.
POLLINGTON, Stephen
1920 CEEarly English magic and medicine.
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
1533 CEEn nyttelig laegebog for fattige og rige, unge og gamle.
PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
2004 CEEncyclopedia of folk medicine: Old world and new world traditions.
HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )
1991 CEEnter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.
MURPHY, Lamar Riley (1953 – )
2010 CEFolk healing and health care practices in Ireland: Stethoscopes, wands and crystals.
MOORE, Ronnie
MOORE, Ronnie
MCLEAN, Stuart
MCLEAN, Stuart
2003 CEFolk medicine in southern Appalachia.
CAVENDER, Anthony
1935 CEFolk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.
BRENDLE, Thomas Royce UNGER, Claude W. (1882 – 1945)
1994 CEFolk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.
RORIE, David (1867 – 1946)
RORIE, David (1867 – 1946) BUCHAN, David (1939 – 1994)
1883 CEFolk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture.
BLACK, William George (1857 – 1932)
BLACK, William George (1857 – 1932)
1928 CEFolklore of the teeth.
KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
2003 CEFrom popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.
PALMER, Steven
1973 CEHallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
2014 CEHandbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
IWU, Maurice Mmaduakolam (1950 – )
1988 CEHausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.
WALL, L. Lewis (1950 – )
1935 CEHealing ritual: studies of the technique and tradition of the southern Slavs.
KEMP, Phylis
1995 CEHealing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.
BEITH, Mary