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Chalcedony and Childbirth: Precious and Semi-Precious Stones as Obstetrical Amulets **
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INTRODUCTION IN 1948 one of us (V. M.-C.) rediscovered the forgotten site of a Danish medieval leprosy hospital, St. George's Hospital (Sankt J0rgens Spital) on a farm near the flourishing market town of Naestved in southwest Sjaelland (fig. 1). It is located about one mile outside the town on the left bank of the river Susaaen, from which it is separated by a small meadow, and the old road bet...
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متن کاملMedical and para-medical manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections
play an important role here, as in many other aspects of everyday life. In medicine, amulets were used to gain longevity, cure certain problems (e.g., madness, alcoholism, leprosy, headache, and bedwetting), ward off epidemics, guarantee fertility or sterility, and bring pregnancy to a safe conclusion; in other areas, they served to protect against weapons, cancel the effects of other amulets, ...
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An interview study of 44 Bangladeshi patients and relatives in London demonstrated simultaneous trust in psychiatrists as well as in the widespread use of healing amulets. At the same time, local Islamic clerics and traditional healers were seen by many with some degree of suspicion. The authors offer an interpretation in which local healers and their methods are regarded ambivalently: the more...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES (INDOGAKU BUKKYOGAKU KENKYU)
سال: 1986
ISSN: 1884-0051,0019-4344
DOI: 10.4259/ibk.34.693