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437 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700]

1978

#10869

Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.

1979

#7190

Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.

1979

#8128

Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.

The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …

1979

#8595

Uses of plants for the past 500 years.

Reissued as Medicinal and other uses of North American plants: A historical survey with special reference to the Eastern Indian tribes (1989).

1979

#9158

Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.

"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…

1980

#6374.9

Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.

A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.

1980

#6604.31

When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.

Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.

1980

#8794

The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.

1980

#9147

Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.

Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...à …

1980

#9747

Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.

1980

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

1980

#12961

Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.

1980

#12962

Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis

1981

#6958

The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.

The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…

1981

#8335

Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.

1981

#13554

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.

"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …

1982

#9365

The web that has no weaver: Understanding Chinese medicine.

1983

#8612

Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.

1983

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1983

#10868

Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.

1985

#6495.4

Medicine in China: A history of ideas.

The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…

1985

#8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

1985

#9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.

1986

#7381

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

1986

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

1987

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1988

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

1988

#7221

Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.

Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, p…

1988

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1988

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1988

#9291

The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.

1988

#9707

Histoire de la médecine chinoise.

1988

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1989

#7668

Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.

1989

#8863

Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.

1989

#9342

Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.

1989

#9730

Approaches to traditional Chinese medical literature. Proceedings of an international symposium on translation methodologies and terminologies. Edited by Paul U. Unschuld.

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990

#8877

Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.

1990

#10873

Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.

Shamanism may have originated among the Turkic peoples of Siberia. English translations of studies by Russian scholars with an introduction and a thorough bibliography.

1990

#10874

The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.

1990

#13343

The healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.

1991

#7514

Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.

1991

#7516

Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations.

A collection of essays by various scholars. Editors also included M.E. van Opstall and F. Vos.

1991

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

1991

#10409

The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present.

1992

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1992

#7594

Becoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.

1992

#9300

Ethnobiological classification: Principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies.

1992

#10856

Plants of the gods: Their sacred, healing and hallucinogenic powers.