Superstitions, funeral ceremonies, and old russian epigraphy
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Medical Superstitions in Ireland
WHEN I was a small child I had an attack of whooping-cough, for which ailment I received whatever medical treatment was then in vogue. In addition to this, however, I was taken to the gasworks. The fumes of the gas were no more efficacious than the more orthodox remedies, and as my whooping was apparently distressing to listen to, I was next taken to a large brewery and encouraged to hang over ...
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and relief in time of sickness?of their castes, their tenets, and their practices, and any one so disposed might glean from the Indian medical periodicals of the last half century materials for a very instructive essay on the subject. We hear, on the one hand, of a physician caste, learned in the traditions of a past era, holding as an heir-loom an empirical knowledge of remedies, which we shou...
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عنوان ژورنال: St. Tikhon's University Review
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1991-6434,1991-6434
DOI: 10.15382/sturii201986.61-80