Folk Medicine and Veterinary Medicine in Folk Narrations of Folk Storyteller Behçet Mahir

Sicilian folk medicine

American folk medicine

The Revolutionary period did (after some hesitation by those who dreamed of a society without hospitals) bring about the conversion of the main houses of Christian care for the sick poor in the large urban centres (Hotels-Dieu, Charite's, and Hopitaux Ge'neraux) to medical institutions concerned with the study and treatment of disease. The process of medicalization of Paris hospitals has been w...

American folk medicine. A symposium

The Folk Medicine Culture of Yazd Jews

Background: The current population of the Yazd Jews is the survivors of a very large and ancient congregation of this people in central Iran. The long inhabitancy of this people in Yazd during the history of Islamic Iran, on one hand, and the current small numbers of these people, demonstrates the necessity of a comprehensive ethnography of this population. The present study aims to collect, st...

Traces of Folk Medicine in Jaunpur

In a village compound built along a hillside in northern Utter Pradesh, Puskarji, a 90-year-old healer, told my research assistant, Jyoti, and I about a valuable book that he had once possessed. "My father had a book that was later lost. It was a published book with mantra cures for illnesses; every method of healing was in that book. My father got the book from a man who lived beyond Tehri, a ...