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How to cure the plague & other curious remedies / Julian Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Julian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Nostrums--history.
- Materia Medica--history.
- Superstitions--history.
- Folklore.
- Traditional medicine--History.
- Traditional medicine.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Nostrums--history.
- Materia Medica--history.
- Superstitions--history.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 137 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- How to cure the plague and other curious remedies
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Library, 2013.
- Contents:
- Heart, liver and lights 13
- Fire down below 20
- Toothache 24
- Warts and all 26
- Ear, nose and throat 32
- First aid 39
- Griping in the guts 50
- Waterworks 59
- Sporting in the Garden of Venus 61
- Mother and child 66
- All in the mind 70
- Gammy legs and poor old feet 79
- Nerves 83
- Sickness and diseases 89
- Sore eyes 99
- Aches and pains, colds and fevers 105
- Children 112
- Medicine chest 117
- How to cure the plague 129.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0712357017
- 9780712357012
- OCLC:
- 848162224
- Publisher Number:
- 99955594323
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