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Paperback Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia Book

ISBN: 080785493X

ISBN13: 9780807854938

Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia

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In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present. He provides a complete tour of ailments and folk treatments organized by body systems, as well as information on medicinal plants, patent medicines, and magico-religious...

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