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437 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700]
1951 –1961
#6448
A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2
1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.
1952
#6546
Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"
1952
#10851
Religious dances in the Christian church and in popular medicine. Translated from the Swedish by E. Classen.
1952
#13306
Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).
1956
#8651
Medicine and magic of the Mashona.
1957
#9272
Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)
1958
#8603
Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.
1958
#10853
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
1959
#10753
Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.
A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…
1961
#6643.1
The natural history of quackery.
1961
#10854
The ethnobotany of pre-Columbian Peru.
"....based on analysis of 2200 wild and cultivated plant specimens with clearly defined archaeological contexts... Part I is a systematic ethnobotany with pertinent citations of the botanical and archaeological litera…
1961
#10855
Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
1961
#10949
Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing.
I. An essay on the development of natural history, especially botany, in Japan; on the influence of early Chinese & Western contacts; on Japanese books & wood-block illustration. II. An exhibition of Japanese books & …
1961
#12413
The toadstool millionaires.
Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.
1962
#7517
Les reflets de la sphygmologie chinoise dans la médecine occidentale.
1962
#8793
The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.
1457pp. The first edition of 1932 had only 314pp.
1963
#6549
The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.
1963
#7868
Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …
1964
#8652
Medicine and custom in Africa.
1964
#10948
An index to selected Japanese medical literature of Pre-Meiji times.
This is an index to a series of 5 offprints by Mestler entitled "A galaxy of old Japanese medical books with miscellaneous notes on early medicine in Japan" published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association…
1966
#12410
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori medicine.
"Arriving in Kaikohe (in the Far North) as a pharmacist he [the author] "passed into a new world as far as medicine was concerned." He found that customers made their own "concoctions" and were under the influence of …
1967
#6643.2
The medical messiahs. A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America.
1969
#7046
Dawn of Western science in Japan. Rangaku Kotohajime by Genpaku Sugita translated by Ryōzō Matsumoto, supervised by Tomio Ogata.
1970
#5019.10
Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.
Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.
1970
#6467.1
American Indian medicine.
Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.
1970
#6604.2
Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.
Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.
1971
#6467.2
Medicine and ethnology. Selected essays by Erwin Ackerknecht. Edited by H. M. Koelbing and H. H. Walser.
See also No. 6448
1971
#10673
Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.
1971
#10857
Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.
"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…
1971
#10858
The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
1971
#10871
Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios
1972
#9021
A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.
Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who came upon …
1972
#9279
Making the cure: A look at Irish folk medicine.
1972
#9917
Strong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.
1972
#9918
The ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.
Revised, expanded, and updated edition, La Grande, OR: E-Cat Worlds, 2014.
1973
#2068.16
Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.
Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.
1973
#9274
Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.
1973
#10735
Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.
Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".
1973
#10898
Drugs and foods from little-known plants: Notes in Harvard University herbaria.
5178 field notes of health and medical interest from specimens in Harvard University herbaria.
1974
#6604.3
La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours.
With Z. Ohya.
1974
#9285
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.
1975
#9250
Medizin und Magie. Heilkunde und Geheimlehre des islamischen Zeitalters. [Medizingeschichtliche Miniaturen 1].
1975
#9270
Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.
1975
#9345
Herbal pharmacology in the People's Republic of China: A trip report of the American Herbal Pharmacology Delegation. Submitted to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.
Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.
1976
#7519
The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.
1976
#11035
Hallucinogenic plants of North America.
1977
#7921
Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.
1977
#7977
The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.
"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…
1977
#9288
Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.
1977
#13369