Download or read book Popular Medicine Customs and Superstitions of the Rio Grande Extracted from the Journal of American Folk Lore written by John Gregory BOURKE and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Popular medicine customs and superstitions of the Rio Grande written by John Gregory Bourke and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author was a serving soldier in command of the Fort at Ringgold Texas. During his time there he interviewed many Mexicans and the book is composed of the information thus derived. He is anxious to point out that though translated, the meaning and truth of their information have not been lost.
Download or read book Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine written by Gabrielle Hatfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging compilation on the materia medica of the ordinary people of Britain and North America, comparing practices in both places. Informative and engaging, yet authoritative and well researched, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine reveals previously unexamined connections between folk medicine practices on either side of the Atlantic, as well as within different cultures (Celtic, Native American, etc.) in the United Kingdom and America. For students, school and public libraries, folklorists, anthropologists, or anyone interested in the history of medicine, it offers a unique way to explore the fascinating crossroads where social history, folk culture, and medical science meet. From the 17th century to the present, the encyclopedia covers remedies from animal, vegetable, and mineral sources, as well as practices combining natural materia medica with rituals. Its over 200 alphabetically organized, fully cross-referenced entries allow readers to look up information both by ailment and by healing agent. Entries present both British and North American traditions side by side for easy comparison and identify the surprising number of overlaps between folk and scientific medicine.
Download or read book The Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Indian Medicine written by Virgil J. Vogel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. Itdiscusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. The influence of American Indian healing arts on the medicine and healing and pharmacology of the white man was considerable. For example, such drugs as insulin and penicillin were anticipated in rudimentary form by the aborigines. Coca leaves were used as narcotics by Peruvian Indians hundreds of years before Carl Koller first used cocaine as a local anesthetic in 1884. All together, about 170 medicines, mostly botanical, were contributed to the official compendia by Indians north of the Rio Grande, about 50 more coming from natives of the Latin-American and Caribbean regions. Impressions and attitudes of early explorers, settlers, physicians, botanists, and others regarding Indian curative practices are reported by geographical regions, with British, French, and Spanish colonies and the young United States separately treated. Indian theories of disease—sorcery, taboo violation, spirit intrusion, soul loss, unfulfilled dreams and desires, and so on -and shamanistic practices used to combat them are described. Methods of treating all kinds of injuries-from fractures to snakebite-and even surgery are included. The influence of Indian healing lore upon folk or domestic medicine, as well as on the "Indian doctors" and patent medicines, are discussed. For the convenience of the reader, an index of botanical names is provided, together with a wide variety of illustrations. The disproportionate attention that has been given to the superstitious and unscientific features of aboriginal medicine has tended to obscure its real contributions to American civilization.
Download or read book Magical Medicine written by Wayland Debs Hand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magie.
Download or read book Healing Logics written by Erika Brady and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine," and "biomedicine" as mutually exclusive have proven too limited in exploring the real-life complexities of health belief systems as they observably exist and are applied by contemporary Americans. Recent research strongly suggests that individuals construct their health belief systmes from diverse sources of authority, including community and ethnic tradition, education, spiritual beliefs, personal experience, the influence of popular media, and perception of the goals and means of formal medicine. Healing Logics explores the diversity of these belief systems and how they interact—in competing, conflicting, and sometimes remarkably congruent ways. This book contains essays by leading scholars in the field and a comprehensive bibliography of folklore and medicine.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Texas University and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton written by University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2002 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University of Pennsylvania Museum library and portraits of individual authors represented in the Brinton Library."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The English Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Folk Medicine written by Wayland Debs Hand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology in cooperation with the Medical History Division of the UCLA School of Medicine and the Society for the History of Medical Science, Los Angeles.
Download or read book A Treasury of American Folklore written by Terri Hardin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into American folklore.
Download or read book An Analytical Index to the Journal of American Folklore written by Tristram Potter Coffin and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of Arizona written by Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This constitutes the third edition of the original catalogue issued by Dr. Munk in 1900 and 1908. The first contained a few hundred volumes, the second about 1000; the present includes several thousand items, and is accompanied by a subject index"--Foreword, page 11.
Download or read book Folk Medicine written by William George Black and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...by water, when it had been taken ashore at its destination it was painted red before it was abandoned. "When the hahunga took place, the scraped bones of the chief thus ornamented, and wrapped in a red-stained mat, were deposited in a box or bowl smeared with the sacred colour, and placed in a painted tomb. Near his final resting-place a lofty and elaborately carved monument was erected to his memory; this was called the tiki, which was also thus coloured." The guardians of the ryot's fields in Southern India--the four or five standing stones--are daubed with red paint, f and Shashti's proper image is a rough stone smeared with the same colour.J Pettigrew, Superstitions connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery, pp. 18-19. f Dennys, Folk-Lore of China, p. 54; Giles, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, vol. i. pp. 40, 44, 45. Bed was also, we learn from Meralla, a sacred colour in Congo. When a Mahometan of sanctity dies, over his grave is placed a heap of large stones, or of mud, and in the centre is a pole with a piece of white or red cloth on the end, "as a banner or signal to all who pass that a holy man is buried there, and the spot becomes famous as a resort for prayer." It would seem, from a passage quoted by Dalyell, that red played an important part in the symbolical destruction of an enemy in India, and it is curious, in this connection, to note that the ghosts of suicides are distinguished in China by wearing red silk handkerchiefs. When the corpse candles in Wales burn white the doomed person is a woman, but if the flame be red then it is a man. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that red cords and red bands should play an important part in Folk-Medicine. In the West...
Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of Spanish Folklore in New Mexico written by Marjorie Frances Tully and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
