FOLK MEDICAL INHALANTS IN RESPIRATORY DISORDERS
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Folk medical inhalants in respiratory disorders.
SEVERAL years ago as I began to work through my voluminous files on American folk medicine, I became interested in some of the unusual remedies that have been employed to combat respiratory ailments in the United States and Canada. This interest was considerably heightened in 1964 when two Virginia scholars called attention to the use of grist mills in the treatment of whooping-cough in their o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s002572730001303x