About this title: Many modern medical practices began as old wives' tales or folk remedies. "Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels" investigates a multicultural variety of age-old remedies often dismissed by 20th-century Western medicine as harmful or foolish but now shown to have real scientific validity. This book calls upon the medical establishment to open itself up to the possiblities of alternative therapies - remedies that have stood the test of time precisely because they work. The age of leeching is long gone, yet tens of thousands of leeches are used each year to re-establish blood flow ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780395822982ISBN:039582298X
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library with labels in good condition. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 279 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1997
Description: Near fine in VG dj, plastic cove. 279 pp ISBN 039582298XX 8VO, Black cloth spine over gold boards, gilt letters. Index, extensive bibliography, scholarly but very readable. Hard to find. SKU 25431 ** We ship our books in sturdy corrugated cartons, paper items in stiff "Stay Flat" envelopes. (We do not use padded envelopes. ) Free tracking (Delivery confirmation) on all USA orders. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. Collectible 1st Edition (HC), 1st printing with 10 full numberline. Ex. Lib Copy in excellent condition w/ stamps. Appears unread. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are nice and clean. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780395822982ISBN:039582298X
Description: New in new dust jacket. book and DJ are in new condition, pages are pristine, cover is new. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 279 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fair. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Highlighting/notations in text. Dust jacket present. Book is GOOD with average wear to cover and pages. We offer a no-hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders generally ship by the next business day. Default Text. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books
Date Published: 10/03/2000
ISBN-13:9780330373784ISBN:0330373781
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 09/04/1999
ISBN-13:9780333750384ISBN:0333750381
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books
Date Published: 10/03/2000
ISBN-13:9780330373784ISBN:0330373781
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780333750384ISBN:0333750381
Description: Hardback with D/J in very good condition, near new. Amazon When we think about the past, we are all guilty of what the historian E.P. Thompson called "the massive condescension of posterity". This has often been particularly true of medicine, where we look at old folk remedies, and at the assumptions of earlier generations of doctors. Knocking on the head wrong ideas about how the body worked, like the four humours, or how the universe worked, like astrology, should not be the same thing as ... read more
"This book goes through "the science behind folk remedies and old wives tales" such as, does licking a wound help? I liked that it talked about chemicals and actual reactions that can take place. It had a lot of eww, that's really cool moments, but I have to admit I didn't read it cover to cover."
"This book gives the history of medicinal cures before the discovery of antibiotics. There are still a lot of viable uses for the information today, especially with the high cost of medical care in some areas. It was very interesting."
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