John Crellin assesses popular home remedies from amulets to Zam-Buk ointment, revealing traditional - often ingenious - ways of coping with common health problems. Home Medicine is both a comprehensive reference to folk cures and self-treatment and a social history of pharmaceutical practices and products in Newfoundland.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum1994-09-07
- Vikt518 g
- FormatInbunden
- SerieMcGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society 1
- Antal sidor288
- FörlagMcGill-Queen's University Press
- ISBN9780773511965