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American folk medicine
Wayland d. handThe 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
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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