Legend, Lore, Medicine, and Magic
Author | : Jodi Elizabeth Gaylord |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Mummies |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jodi Elizabeth Gaylord |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Mummies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Reader's Digest Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780895772213 |
The only book that brings together: an authoritative, stunningly illustrated field guide; a how-to book for identifying, collecting, and reserving plants; the fascinating story of the legends and lore of medicinal plants; and a do-it-yourself guide to planting and using herbs in cooking, cosmetics, and health. Illustrated.
Author | : Richard Hunderfund |
Publisher | : Star Publishing Company (Belmont, CA) |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : 9780898631159 |
The history of medicine beginning with pre-historical beliefs and legends.
Author | : Wayland D. Hand |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520311779 |
"Distilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see"; "Plucking herbs upward for emetics and downward for purgatives"; "Stroking one's goiter with a dead man's hand to make the growth shrivel away"--these are not beliefs and customs found among primitive peoples in remote parts of the world but are examples of hundreds of items of magical medicine found in Professor Hand's remarkable collection of essays dealing with this neglected field in twentieth-century Europe and America. Fantasy and imagination still have free reign in people's lives, more than any of us will admit. In a time when science is preeminent, irrational thinking ca lay hold on the mid of man as much as in olden times. Folk medicine has expanded in recent years to include holistic medicine and other forms of alternative medicine, but little attention has been paid to magical medicine. Despite the benefits of medical science in an advance culture, the magical medicine of Europe and America has clung to an unusually rich and original body of magical lore that lies at the base of its folk medical thought. Ethnomedicine in the inner cities of America can be better understood by practitioners who know something about folk medicine and, especially, if they kno some of the basics of magical medicine. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
Author | : C. J. Thompson |
Publisher | : Random House Value Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : |
In this book, Dr. Thompson has traced the history of magic in medicine in every country where it was practiced throughout the centuries, up to its counterpart in modern times, the psychological treatment of disease. Healing by incantation, by sympathy, by touch and with the aid of astrology are all discussed. Folk medicine and herbs of healing, precious stones, rings and girdles used in healing and even beds of healing all have their place within this strange story. Handsomely illustrated.
Author | : W. H. R. Rivers |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780415209533 |
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Wayland D. Hand |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2022-05-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520359763 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
Author | : Wayland Debs Hand |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520038363 |
Author | : James Kirkland |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1992-01-30 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780822312178 |
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III
Author | : Richard Hunderford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |