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Cavender, Anthony P.

Folk medicine in southern Appalachia / Anthony Cavender. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xviii, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.

Health and disease in southern Appalachia -- The folk medical belief system -- Folk materia medica -- Folk treatments -- Folk healers -- Contemporary perspectives on folk medicine in southern Appalachia.

ISBN: 0807828246 (cloth : alk. paper) 080785493X (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2003010305

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Traditional medicine--History.--Appalachian Region, Southern
Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.--Appalachian Region, Southern
Medicinal plants--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Materia medica--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Medicine, Traditional--history--Appalachian Region.

LC Class. No.: GR108.15 / .C38 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 398/.353/0974

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WZ 309 / C379f 2003