Folk medicine in southern Appalachia / Anthony Cavender

Author: Cavender, Anthony P.
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Copyright Date: ©2003
Physical Description: xviii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

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(s)

Traditional medicine—Appalachian Region, Southern—History
Traditional medicine—Appalachian Region, Southern—Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Medicinal plants—Appalachian Region, Southern
Materia medica—Appalachian Region, Southern
Medicine, Traditional—history
Appalachian Region

ISBN

0807828246 (cloth : alk. paper)
080785493X (paper : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-257) and index.

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