Home Medicine: The Newfoundland Experience
ISBN: 9780773564787
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Traditional medicine -- Newfoundland;

John Crellin assesses popular home remedies from amulets to Zam-Buk ointment, revealing traditional - often ingenious - ways of coping with common health problems. Home Medicine is both a comprehensive reference to folk cures and self-treatment and a social history of pharmaceutical practices and products in Newfoundland.


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