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  • American Folk Medicine
    American Folk Medicine

    American folk medicine

    Wayland d. hand

    The UCLA Conference on American Folk Medicine, held from December 13-15, 1973, marked a pioneering interdisciplinary exploration of folk medical practices across the Americas. Sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology, in collaboration with UCLA’s Medical Hi...

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  • Magical Medicine
    Magical Medicine

    Magical medicine

    Wayland d. hand

    "Distilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see"; "Plucking herbs upward for emetics and downward for purgatives"; "Stroking one's goiter with a dead man's hand to make the growth shrivel away"--these are not beliefs and customs found among primitive peoples in remote pa...

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