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383 entries match Alternative & Fringe Medicine [G02.403.750 / M01]
1939
#6465.1
Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection
Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…
1939
#13305
Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.
1941
#6466
Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.
1941
#6467
La medicina primitiva.
1942
#9284
A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.
In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…
1946
#8634
Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.
1946
#8741
The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.
The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…
1947
#6629
Magic and healing.
1948
#11620
Urological oddities.
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.
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
#10855
Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
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.
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.
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.
1967
#13258
The great American water-cure craze: A history of hydropathy in the United States.
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.
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
#6880
Homeopathy in America: The rise and fall of the medical heresy.
A history of homeopathy in America, including its demise during the early to mid-20th century.
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
#9279
Making the cure: A look at Irish folk medicine.
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
#6859
Divided legacy: A history of the schism in medical thought: Volume III, science and ethics in American medicine: 1800-1914.
The history of homeopathic medicine in America, covering the difficulties within the homeopathic ranks and teachings.
1973
#10735
Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.
Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".
1975
#2068.17
Manipulation past and present, with an extensive bibliography.
1975
#9250
Medizin und Magie. Heilkunde und Geheimlehre des islamischen Zeitalters. [Medizingeschichtliche Miniaturen 1].
1976
#7519
The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.
1977
#7921
Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.
1977
#9288
Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.
1977
#13369
African folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.
1978
#10869
Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.
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
#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.
1981
#8335