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Folk medicine in southern Appalachia / Anthony Cavender.

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  • ISBN: 0807828246
  • ISBN: 080785493X
  • ISBN: 9780807854938
  • Physical Description: xviii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-257) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Health and disease in southern Appalachia -- The folk medical belief system -- Folk materia medica -- Folk treatments -- Folk healers -- Contemporary perspectives on southern Appalachian folk medicine.
Subject:
Traditional medicine > Appalachian Region, Southern > History.
Traditional medicine > Appalachian Region, Southern > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Medicinal plants > Appalachian Region, Southern.
Materia medica > Appalachian Region, Southern.

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