Home medicine: the newfoundland experience
Auteur :
Crellin, John K.
Éditeur :
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN :
9780773511972
Date de publication :
7 sept. 1994
Poids :
397 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Canada
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.