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Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-16 - Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-25 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropo
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-23 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Explores homespun remedies and medicinal herbs Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on ho
Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: Boston Academic Pub
This concise guide to medicinal plants of the Southern Appalachians includes botanical descriptions of 45 native plants, their historical and current uses in he
Language: en
Pages: 259
Pages: 259
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, preachers and quacks alike. She shows how families passed down cures a